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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.
How to Rap: The Art & Science of the Hip-Hop MC was published by Chicago Review Press on December 1, 2009 with a foreword by Kool G Rap. [2] [5] [6] Publishers Weekly states that it “goes into everything from why rappers freestyle to the challenges of collaboration in hip-hop”, [7] and Library Journal says, "instruction ranges over selecting topics and form, editing, rhyming techniques ...
The book was praised by various press outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, [5] The Dallas Morning News, [2] The Boston Globe, [6] and The New York Times. [7]In particular, the book is praised for focusing on the poetics of hip hop music rather than examining the outlying societal factors—the Los Angeles Times noted, “As a key part of America's youth culture and a central battlefield in ...
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Frzy encouraged spectators to wave their arms to the rhythms as he energetically rapped fresh originals like the street-toughened "Trouble Man," and more gleeful "You Ain't Got No Money" that ...
In the book Rap-Up: The Ultimate Guide to Hip-Hop and R&B, Cameron and Devin Lazerine say Big Daddy Kane is "widely seen as one of the best lyricists of his time and even today regularly gets name-checked by younger dudes", [32] and music journalist Peter Shapiro says Kane is "perhaps the most complete MC ever". [24]
Ice Spice was born and raised in The Bronx, New York, a huge epicenter of hip-hop music. This melting pot of African-American and Dominican cultures provides a fertile ground for artistic development.
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 ...