"Dante grew up in and around so much emergent culture in NYC, at a time when cultural exchange was truly at its peak. He took what he saw and used it as inspiration for a prolific career in music and beyond. Son of the City provides a birds eye view of it all."–Mike D, Beastie Boys
"The big bro Dante Ross believed in me from day one. When my group Leaders of The New School broke up, Dante opened the doors for me to pursue my solo career. The rest is history. In reading Son of the City, I got to stroll down memory lane and revisit this defining moment in my life and career."–Busta Rhymes
"Dante Ross's presence is ubiquitous throughout the evolution of this culture. He's played such an integral role in realizing so many of the most iconic and meaningful moments. I consider him to be the Forest Gump of hip-hop." –Black Thought
"Dante Ross was one of the first people to believe in me. I thank him endlessly for taking a chance on a young woman and her dream way back when. Son of the City is an exciting tale of one of hip-hop's greatest A&R people and his journey."–Queen Latifah
"Dante Ross can tell the history of hip-hop culture and business from start to finish because he lived it. His list of achievements is mind-boggling. Son of the City is the story of a tough-talking gentle soul who put his career and heart on the line for the sake of the real shit. "–Dan Charnas, author of Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, The Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
"Dante Ross has seen and done it all. He's been an icon of urban cool, a pop star-maker, and the confidante of rap and rock heroes and political radicals, style moguls, and gang-bangers. He has ridden shotgun down the mainline of our generation and lived to tell about it. In Son of the City, he does it with lyricism, grace, and wisdom."–Jeff Chang, author of Who We Be: The Colorization of America and Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
"In Son of the City, Dante Ross captures what it was like to have a front-row seat for nearly 3 decades of hip-hop history as it was being made in real-time. Dante is the Ralph Bass of hip-hop.." –Chuck D
"A New Yorker by nature and music executive by hard work, Dante Ross's book is a journey both through Big Apple history and theevolution of hip-hop, a story filled with love, money and occasional fisticuffs."–Nelson George, author of Hip Hop America
"The records Dante Ross made both as an A&R man at Elektra and as a member of the SD50's production crew are some of the most treasured rap music of the early 90's. They influenced me enormously. Like the author himself, Son of the City is a passionate, entertaining, no bullshit inside look at how the New York hip-hop scene ran in that golden era."–Mark Ronson
"Dante Ross is one of the most important and consistent executives in all of music. I have no hesitation in saying he is the gold standardin hip-hop A&R. All of his foundational signees affected my personal creative direction, which meant that they affected my life. Ican't thank him enough for posting those numbers on the boards. But on top of everything else, he is the last of a dying breed–a nononsense cool-ass New Yorker who has always walked it like he's talked it. He's a true sage. Thank you, Dante!"–Quest Love
