We specialize in Hip Hop, Electronic music, and Street Art literary and photography books, aiming to create a catalog that serves as a resource with integrity and vision to document and celebrate our culture. We are 305 for Life! Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do.

Bio

The Cipher Press founder John Cordero previously co-founded and published “The Cipher: Miami’s Hip Hop Newspaper” in 1998, an independent monthly publication that chronicled the emerging Hip Hop scene in South Florida. Featuring interviews, music reviews, articles, photographs, and poetry, Mr. Cordero assembled a dedicated staff of like-minded Hip Hop heads that quickly became the go-to source for all things Hip Hop related in Miami.

In 2017, Mr. Cordero self-published “The Cipher: A History of Hip Hop in Miami” in 2017, and was a featured speaker at the 2017 Miami Book Fair. The book is a collection of the best of The Cipher, which was published from 1998 to 2000. It is also a memoir by the author, who arrived in Miami in 1995 and immersed himself in the underground Hip Hop scene at the time.

Chronicling the rise and fall of the publication, the book is a story of Hip Hop in Miami in the words of its artists and creators, taken from interviews and told as a narrative of unfiltered recollections and anecdotes. Featuring never-before seen photos and memorabilia, it is a personal journey that stresses overcoming all odds alongside the trials and tribulations of Miami youngsters making sense of and reporting on the multi-million dollar rap industry developing around them in the mid-to-late ’90s.