Music-Genres & Styles-Rap & Hip Hop

This book examines the old school hip hop years from 1979-1985. This was the age of innocence.Author: Rashad Skyla MitchellISBN-10: 151162194XISBN-13: 9781511621946Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/2015Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.07d

"Reading this book is like looking in the mirror...Much love for Professor Kreston Kent " -Lil Wayne. #1 Bestseller on Amazon Rap category and iBooks Music category. Called a "thorough and incisive proof of Lil Wayne's genius" by critics, the book shows that Wayne's...

As immediately believable as they were cartoonish, as much an inner city cipher as a suburban boys gang, the foursome that made up the Pharcyde were the most relatable MCs to ever pass the mic. On their debut and magnum opus Bizarre Ride II...

A visual catalog of site-specic rap lyrics in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Houston and more. With lyrics from Jay Z, Snoop Dogg, Andre 3000, Kanye West, Scarface and more. Since 2013, multi-disciplinary artist Jay Shells (Jason Shelowitz) has been travelling to major...

Author Jake Brown breaks it all down. In Kanye West Before the Legend: The Rise of Kanye West and the Chicago Rap and R&B Scene - The Early Years, we will uncover the method behind this genius's multi-platinum madness, from Jay Z's 'The Blueprint',...

Over the past four decades, rap and hip hop culture have taken a central place in popular music both in the United States and around the world. Listening to Rap: An Introduction enables students to understand the historical context, cultural impact, and unique musical...

Through rap and hip hop, entertainers have provided a voice questioning and challenging the sanctioned view of society. Examining the moral and social implications of Kanye West's art in the context of Western civilization's preconceived ideas, the contributors consider how West both challenges religious...

"Reading this book is like looking in the mirror...Much love for Professor Kreston Kent " -Lil Wayne. #1 Bestseller on Amazon Rap category and iBooks Music category. Called a "thorough and incisive proof of Lil Wayne's genius" by critics, the book shows that Wayne's...

In the beginning, he was one of nine-the Wu-Tang Clan's first swordsman. But much more than just 11.11% of a greater entity, Ghostface Killah established himself as a seminal rapper in hip-hop history and one of the greatest artists to skulk the planet. In...

Jay-Z is one of America's leading rappers and entrepreneurs, as well known for his music as for his business acumen. This text seeks to situate Jay-Z within his musical, intellectual and cultural context for educational study. Thirteen essays address such topics as Jay-Z's relevance...

Spring Forward is a collection of photographs, artwork, and writings by Erick Elliott. Elliott is the producer and member of the Brooklyn based hip hop group the Flatbush Zombies. In commenting on Spring Forward, Elliott notes, "I've worked on this book subconsciously (all of...

The powerful and compelling true story of corruption, coercion and murder surrounding the Tupac Shakur & Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace homicides brought to 2014. With contribution by former Los Angeles Police Detective Russell Poole, the original Wallace homicide investigator, Michael Douglas Carlin, Director of...

This is the first book to discuss in detail how rap music is put together musically. Whereas a great deal of popular music scholarship dismisses music analysis as irrelevant or of limited value, the present book argues that it can be crucial to cultural...

As one of the most influential and popular genres of the last three decades, rap has cultivated a mainstream audience and become a multimillion-dollar industry by promoting highly visible and often controversial representations of blackness. Sounding Race in Rap Songs argues that rap music...

Our national conversation about race is ludicrously out-of-date. Hip-hop is the key to understanding how things are changing. In a provocative book that will appeal to hip-hoppers both black and white and their parents, Bakari Kitwana deftly teases apart the culture of hip-hop to...

Mary J. Blige is an icon who represents the political consciousness of hip hop and the historical promise of soul. She is an everywoman, celebrated by Oprah Winfrey and beloved by pop music fans of all ages and races. Blige has sold over fifty...

Welcome to this exploration of the Roots of hip-hop. The roots of hip-hop, as in: the Roots--a story of one of the most enduring, multi-talented, and successful groups of the past thirty years in any genre--and the story of the roots of hip-hop, that...

Explores the range of vibrant cultural production and political activism of youth in Africa today, as expressed through art, music, theater, and online media. This edited collection focuses on the links between youth and African popular culture. Contributions by a distinguished group of scholars...

In her first book, Patrice shares her story about being a fourteen-year-old girl who endures the horrors of child sexual abuse. On a path filled with every horror imaginable, there were still angels along the way. She is able to triumph and then dedicates...

Award-winning poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor pays tribute to her departed son Malik 'Phife Dawg' Taylor of the legendary hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Quest in this intimate collection.Author: Cheryl Boyce-TaylorISBN-10: 1642594040ISBN-13: 9781642594041Publisher: Haymarket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/19/2021Pages: 80Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

CONTENTSOrigins: A sampling of the sphere of influence for Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space), the debut album of the Digable Planets.The System: A shadowy synth-pop album unearthedRaymond Scott: Synthesizer innovator and composer sampled by DillaSusaye Greene: Singer-songwriter who worked with Ray...

The story of how Hip Hop got its start, told by Gene "Poo Poo Man" Anderson, the promoter at the center of it all. From "Rapper's Delight" and the first rap concert ever, to the introduction of breakdancing and scratching, take an insider's tour...

The musician and Hip Hop legend--hailed as "the greatest MC of all time" and compared to Thelonious Monk--reimagines the writing handbook in this memoir and guide that incorporates the soulful genius, confidence, and creativity of a master artist.When he exploded on the music scene,...

Check out the top 25 hip-hop albums of 1990.Author: Rashad Skyla MitchellISBN-10: 1511841729ISBN-13: 9781511841726Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2015Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.06d

"Music is simply the soul boiling over into sound. When you produce with this in mind, there is no way you'll ever miss the mark." Curtiss King: Producer. Rapper. Mentor to thousands of aspiring artists and entrepreneurs through his YouTube channel. His production credits...

A look at the History of Hip Hop ( A sub-cultural music movement) that has inspired and changed lives. It has also impacted the world in the last four decades. This book includes the elements of Hip Hop, origin and founders popular and "underground"...

Rap-A-Lot Records, U.G.K. (Pimp C and Bun B), Paul Wall, Beyonce, Chamillionaire and Scarface are all names synonymous with contemporary hip-hop. And they have one thing in common: Houston. Long before the country came to know the chopped and screwed style of rap from...

A hero for our times, Jay-Z is one of the world's most successful hip hop artists, record producers and entrepreneurs, selling more than 50 million albums globally and winning 13 Grammy Awards. Author Mark Beaumont has interviewed Jay-Z and many revealing insights from that...

The New Beats, first published in 1994, was one of the first books to seriously approach and document the hip-hop phenomenon. It takes you from its origins in the South Bronx in the '70s, to the hip-hop of today, now in its nostalgia phase.The...

Words is the first installment of interviews conducted by Brian Kayser, editor-in-chief of HipHopGame.com, with some of the most influential figures in hip-hop, including DJ Premier, Just Blaze, Rakim, N.O.R.E., Raekwon, GZA, and the incomparable Sean Price. These interviews were conducted between 2005 and...

I consider myself lucky to be born on the 29th of December in the year of 1970. On the other side of my Mother's womb awaited Afro's, bell bottoms, black power and soul music. However amidst the black love lay a dark cloud mixed...

Hip-Hop at it's core is authentic and unapologetic without those two attributes, you ain't Hip-Hop If you feel like you're disrespecting someone, when you say the word nigga, you're definitely not Hip-Hop. So, don't even put yourself in that space, especially if you feel...

Let's take it back to the seventiesWhen Rap was born and made emcees. But before they could even bless the MicIt would be the DJ that rocked the night From the Message that rained down from Sugar HillTo the beat from chic that spun...

NaS Lost is the Nas book only Byron Crawford could write, and not just due to literacy issues in the hip-hop community. Billed as a tribute to the little homey, it is in fact a tribute, but not in the way that an article...

Ambition came as a curse for a young optimistic "Johnny-boy." from the hard knocks life of the Cabrini Green and Henry Horner project homes in Chicago, Illinois, to frequent stints with the law, life wasn't a crystal stair by far. Demetrius Smith, driven only...

In 1997 the rap group Racionais MCs (the 'Rational' MCs) recorded the album Sobrevivendo no Inferno (Surviving in Hell), subsequently changing the hip-hop scene in S縊 Paulo and firmly establishing itself as the point of reference for youth across Brazil. In an era when...

Using the latest research, real-world examples, and a new theory of healthy development, this book explains Hip Hop culture's ongoing role in helping Black youths to live long, healthy, and productive lives. In The Healing Power of Hip Hop, Raphael Travis Jr. offers a...

SSM Magazine "Sexy but Classy" A Model Pictorial In the premier issue of SSM, we introduce new model; Aleshia Haute. Her name says it all; this Charlotte beauty has an amazing personality with a body to match. SSM (So Seductive Models) Magazine is a...

More than 3,500 entries are listed in chronological order in a day-by-day record of rap and hip hop including industry awards, television and film appearances, noteworthy concerts and music festivals, personal disputes and controversies, arrests and court trials, and birthdays and deaths. There is...

Few realize how important Kanye West has been to the last 5 years of hip-hop, well before he became a solo phenomenon, when he was still a fledgling producer working on Jay Z's The Blueprint, arguably the first 5 MICs-worthy album of the Millennium,...

This book will entertain, inform and challenge the realest hip hop fan from the old to the new. Peep This Hip Hop Trivia Vol. 1 features over 400 questions on the artists you know and love. You can test yourself or your friends on...

Project Blowed is a legendary hiphop workshop based in Los Angeles. It began in 1994 when a group of youths moved their already renowned open-mic nights from the Good Life, a Crenshaw district health food store, to the KAOS Network, an arts center in...

Examines the significance of the 'hood in rap and hip hopThe 'Hood Comes First looks at the increasingly specific emphasis on real neighborhoods and streets in rap music and hip hop culture as an urgent response to the cultural and geographical ghettoization of black...

Frames hip-hop as the defining cultural force in the aftermath of the Civil Rights and Black Power eras When Lauryn Hill stepped forward to accept her fifth Grammy Award in 1999, she paused as she collected the last trophy, and seeming somewhat startled said,...

From its earliest days, hip hop was more than just music, encapsulating the ideas of community and exchange. Artists like Mellow Man Ace and Kid Frost opened doors by infusing Spanish into their lyrics, calling for racial and social equality; others employed hip hop...

This new kind of dictionary reflects the use of "rhythm rhymes" by rappers, poets, and songwriters of today. Users can look up words to find collections of words that have the same rhythm as the original and are useable in ways that are familiar...

For years Rap artists have met with mixed reception--acclaimed by fans yet largely overlooked by scholars. Focusing on 135 tracks from 56 artists, this survey appraises the artistry of the genre with updates to the traditional methods and measures of musicology. Rap synthesizes rhythmic...

Connecting classic rhythm & blues and rock & roll to the Civil Rights Movement, and classic soul and funk to the Black Power Movement, The Hip Hop Movement critically explores what each of these musics and movements contributed to rap, neo-soul, hip hop culture,...

Hip Hop's Inheritance arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally, 'inherited' from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement, the Feminist Art movement, and 1980s and 1990s postmodern aesthetics. By comparing and contrasting the major motifs of the...

Author: Mabusha CooperISBN-10: 1410799352ISBN-13: 9781410799357Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/04/2004Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.40w x 0.36d