Kim Osorio

Kim Osorio made history when she became the first ever and only female Editor In Chief of the Source Magazine. Having been with the magazine, dubbed the bible of hip-hop, for just two years before rising to the top editorial spot on the masthead, Kim Osorio climbed the ladder in a male-dominated industry. She led the magazine’s editorial vision,... more »

Kim Osorio made history when she became the first ever and only female Editor In Chief of the Source Magazine. Having been with the magazine, dubbed the bible of hip-hop, for just two years before rising to the top editorial spot on the masthead, Kim Osorio climbed the ladder in a male-dominated industry. She led the magazine’s editorial vision, all while dealing with the internal drama that comes along with being a woman in power at a magazine that documented a music that was slowly turning into a misogynistic culture. But while she defended hip-hop in the mainstream, Kim was facing her own challenges within the culture. Widely known for filing one of the biggest lawsuits in the history of hip-hop, Kim Osorio sued the Source Magazine in 2006 and was victorious. The jury found that she was unlawfully fired for filing a complaint of gender discrimination, and that the owners at the company had defamed her as well. This past September, she released her personal memoir, entitled "Straight From The Source: An Expose From The Former Editor In Chief of the Hip Hop Bible" to officially set the record straight. « less