Blink-182 singer-bassist and co-founding member Mark Hoppus has introduced Fahrenheit-182, his new memoir co-written with Sellout creator Dan Ozzi. The e-book hits cabinets on April 8, 2025 by way of Dey Street Books. In a cheeky infomercial-style video, Hoppus guarantees the memoir will get into skateboarding, ’90s music, and band breakups, in addition to his diagnosis with cancer, which he’s since treated with chemotherapy.
“It is a story of what occurs when an angst-ridden child who grew up within the desert experiences his dad and mom’ bitter divorce, strikes across the nation, switches identities from dork to goth to skate punk, and ultimately meets his greatest buddy who simply so occurs to be his musical soulmate,” reads a description for the e-book. “Threaded by with the very human story of a relentless battle with anxiousness and Mark’s public battle and overcome most cancers, Fahrenheit-182 is a delight for followers and likewise a humorous, good, and relatable memoir for anybody who has needed to give up however saved going.”
Hoppus isn’t the primary member of Blink-182 to jot down a e-book. Travis Barker launched his personal memoir, Can I Say: Dwelling Giant, Dishonest Dying, and Drums, Drums, Drums, again in 2016, and Tom DeLonge printed the sci-fi novel Trinity this previous June. As for Ozzi, that is the second memoir he’s co-written with an artist, following 2016’s Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Against Me! singer Laura Jane Grace.
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