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Deborah Gregory, author of The Cheetah Girls book series; Dick Gregory (1932–2017) Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933) Nikki Grimes (born 1950), children's book author and poet [13] Angelina Weld Grimke (1880–1958) Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837–1914) Rosa Guy (1922–2012) John Langston Gwaltney (1928–1998), anthropologist, author of Drylongso
Jason Reynolds (born December 6, 1983) is an American author of novels and poetry for young adult and middle grade audiences. Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in neighboring Oxon Hill, Maryland, Reynolds found inspiration in rap and had an early focus on poetry, publishing several poetry collections before his first novel in 2014, When I Was the Greatest, which won the John Steptoe Award ...
Hip Hop Family Tree began on Boing Boing in January 2012 as a one-page "semi-regular ongoing feature", [9] and ran, mostly weekly, until December 2015. Fantagraphics released the first "Treasury" collection, Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 1: 1970s–1981, in 2013, and the second collection, covering the years 1981–1983, in 2014; both of which collected material that had been previously published ...
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation is a 2005 book by Jeff Chang chronicling the early hip hop scene.. The book features portraits of DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Chuck D, and Ice Cube, among others, and is based on numerous interviews with graffiti artists, gang members, DJs, rappers, and hip hop activists.
The two moguls continued to dominate Forbes hip-hop lists over the next few years. In 2012, Diddy topped their rich list with an estimated total worth of $550 million while Jay-Z was in second ...
The 50 Greatest Rappers of All Time" is a music editorial and ranking of the finest rappers in history, published by the American magazines Billboard and Vibe in February 2023. The ranking was created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip hop music 's inception and was compiled by the magazines' respective editorial boards .
Propelled by Serrano's engagement with his enthusiastic Twitter following, [8] The Rap Year Book repeatedly ranked on 2015 The New York Times best-seller lists. [9] The book's first pressing of 20,000 copies sold out in pre-orders before The Rap Year Book even hit shelves; [10] a mock "feud" on Twitter between Serrano and Books-a-Million sold out the retailer's stock of the book in one day ...
Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present is a nonfiction book by Mark Costello and David Foster Wallace. The book explores the music genre's history as it intersected with historical events, either locally and unique to Boston , or in larger cultural or historical contexts.