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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 ...
The Roots of Rap is a Junior Library Guild book. [5] Kirkus Reviews and the New York Public Library named it among the best picture books of 2019, [6] [7] and the Chicago Public Library named it among the year's Best Informational Books for Younger Readers. [8] Booklist also included it on their 2019 list of the "Top 10 Arts Books for Youth". [9]
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.
With its academic interviewees and mini-histories, J.M. Harper’s directorial debut “As We Speak,” about the weaponizing of rap lyrics in the courts, has the trappings of rigor.
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 ...
BRB, I need to add "Seduce & Scheme" to my playlist ASAP.View Entire Post ›
The book is about 800 pages long. It includes rap lyrics, sorted by chronology and era from 1978 until the book's publication. It also discusses the history and cultural influence of the genre. [4] Sam Anderson of New York Magazine described the book as "an English major’s hip-hop bible, an impossible fusion of street cred and book learning."
There are almost 700 cases in which rap lyrics have been quoted in courtrooms since the 1990s, according to professor Erik Nielson, who has led the Rap on Trial project for a decade. The ...