Ben Westhoff

Ben Westhoff is a longtime music journalist whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Spin, Pitchfork, and the Village Voice. He spent three years as the Music Editor at L.A.Weekly, and is the author of Dirty South: Outkast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop (Chicago Review Press), which Rolling Stone called "packed with lively reporting and colorful social history."