And it don't stop : the best American hip-hop journalism of the last 25 years
Presents a collection of articles on the history of hip-hop from the streets of the Bronx in the early 1980s to its international popularity by 2000. In September 1979, there was a cosmic shift that went unnoticed by the majority of mainstream America. This shift was triggered by the release of the Sugarhill Gang's single, Rapper's Delight. Not only did it usher rap music into the mainstream's consciousness, it brought us the word "hip-hop." This book, edited by the award winning journalist Raquel Cepeda, with a foreword from Nelson George is a collection of the best articles the hip-hop generation has produced. It captures the indelible moments in hip-hop's history since 1979 and will be the centerpiece of the twenty-fifth-anniversary celebration. This book epitomizes the media's response by taking the reader on an engaging and critical journey, including the very first pieces written about hip-hop for publications like The Village Voice--controversial articles that created rifts between church and state, the artist and journalist, and articles that recorded the rise and tragic fall of the art form's appointed heroes, such as Tupac Shakur, Eazy-E, and the Notorious B.I.G. The list of contributors includes Toure, Kevin Powell, dream hampton, Harry Allen, Cheo Hodari Coker, Greg Tate, Bill Adler, Hilton Als, Danyel Smith, and Joan Morgan
Aufsatzsammlung
xix, 361 pages ; 24 cm
9780571211593, 0571211593
54670221
1980s : Looking for the perfect beat. Physical graffiti : breaking is hard to do / Sally Banes ; Afrika Bambaataa's hip-hop / Steven Hager ; London rocks, Paris burns, and the B-boys break a leg / David Hershkovits ; The South Bronx was getting a bad rap until a club called Disco Fever came along / Bill Adler ; Rappin' with Russell : Eddie Murphying the flak-catchers / Nelson George ; Teddy Riley's New Jack swing / Barry Michael Cooper ; Armageddon in effect / John Leland
1990s : Pop goes the weasel. The house that rap built / Carol Cooper ; The nigga ya hate to love / Joan Morgan ; The rebirth of cool / Scott Poulson-Bryant ; Native sons / Kevin Powell ; Caught up in the (gangsta) rapture : Dr. C. Delores Tucker's crusade against "gangsta rap" / Kierna Mayo ; Hell-raiser / Dream Hampton ; Eazy living / Carter Harris ; Diatribe / Greg Tate ; Chronicle of a death foretold / Cheo Hodari Coker ; Haitian homecoming / Selwyn Seyfu Hinds and Bakari Kitwana ; Allah's on me / Robert Marriott ; No respect : a critic at large / Hilton Als ; What the white boy means when he says yo / Charles Aaron ; Foxy Brown is the illest / Danyel Smith ; The show, the after-party, the hotel / Karen R. Good ; Don't hate me because I'm ghetto fabulous / David Kamp ; The Hip-Hop Nation : whose is it? In the end, Black men must lead / Touré
2000s : Get rich or die tryin'. Fool's paradise / Raquel Cepeda ; The writing on the wall : graffiti culture crumbles into the violence it once escaped / Sacha Jenkins ; Planet rock / Robert Christgau ; Rhythmic heart of the kings of rock : Jam Master Jay, 1965-2002 / Harry Allen ; Keepin' it unreal : $elling the myth of Bla¢k male violen¢e, long past its expiration date / Ta-Nehisi Coates ; The professional / Emil Wilbekin