Dropping Beats, Nathanael Lessore
Dropping Beats, Nathanael Lessore
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Dropping Beats

Author: Nathanael Lessore

Narrator: Kuda Dutiro Robinson

Unabridged: 5 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/11/2025


Synopsis

"Funny, bursting with heart, goofy, wise, and did I mention– wildly wonderfully funny."
—Jon Scieszka, First National Ambassador of Young People's Literature and Founder of Guys Read

A hilarious and heartfelt young YA comedy about the misadventures of an aspiring young rapper as he navigates school, family, and friendship.

Thirteen-year-old Growls (aka Shaun) is an aspiring (awful) rapper who hopes to enter this year’s Raptology competition with his best friend, Shanks (aka Zachariah). After all, what better way to land his crush (Tanisha) and get the respect he finally deserves than winning the contest and going viral? 
 
But when a livestream practice goes epically wrong, the two friends do go viral– and not in the way they’d hoped.  
 
Now the laughingstock of the school, Growls is sure he’ll never have another chance to date Tanisha. Even worse, Shanks has gone MIA, leaving him terribly alone. 
 
But when Growls meets the new girl on the block (Siobhan), things don’t seem so terrible after all. And with some patience, a little luck, and a whole lot of practice, he just might win the Raptology competition and be a hero to both Siobhan and Shanks.
 
Either way, he’s ready for this. He’s steady for this. It’s comeback season and they call him comeback king for a reason.
 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Faye on May 07, 2024

Wow, I certainly judged this by its cover. I wasn’t excited to read this, but I loved it. Hilariously funny (can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading) and it has made me think about how messages can be presented in a lighthearted way. Definitely my favourite Carnegie book this year, an......more

Goodreads review by Sara on July 18, 2023

I loved this SO much. Laugh out loud funny, but also with such heart and emotional depth. The audio, read by Kuda Dutiro Robinson, was absolutely perfect. I haven't enjoyed a book so purely in a long time. Just brilliant.......more

Goodreads review by Sophie on April 14, 2024

This is brilliant! Genuinely really funny (I lost count of how many times I laughed out loud) and also really sweet and heart-warming, I loved it.......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on April 24, 2023

‘Steady For This’ is a modern book written for young teens using youth language and slang. I’m obviously not its intended audience, being as ancient as I am, but it was still really amusing and gave me serious ‘Adrian Mole’ vibes at times. The story follows Shaun ‘Growls’ Thompson after a seriously......more

Goodreads review by Helen on May 11, 2023

I got sent an advanced copy of this by Readers First to read and review. This is a very interesting book with a very modern feel to it. I should mention that the majority of it is written in modern slang dialect and I initially found this quite hard to follow until I’d got a bit further into it and......more