"I'm not a businessman-I'm a business, man." --Jay-Z Some people think Jay-Z is just another rapper. Others see him as...
Showing posts with label Hip Hop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hip Hop. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player: Ice-T and the Politics of BlackCultural Production
9:05 AM
This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil righ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
12:01 PM
Here's what The Rap Year Book does: It takes readers from 1979, widely regarded as the moment rap became recognized as part of the cu...
Thursday, October 29, 2015
The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth
5:57 AM
The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel a uniquely American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis, segregation, and social isolation of disadvan...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Inside A Thug's Heart
5:31 AM
Rikers Island is the centerpiece of the New York City Department of Corrections, a sprawling prison city of concrete and steel with hous...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation
9:52 AM
From Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of the award-winning hip-hop group the Roots, comes this vibrant book commemorating the legacy ...
Monday, September 28, 2015
Religion and Hip Hop
10:23 AM
From Don Imus's "nappy headed-ho's" and default public scapegoating of Hip Hop culture to the burial of the "N...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Dr. Dre (Hip-Hop Biographies)
3:45 PM
There's no doubt about it, today's students listen to an average of 2.5 hours of music every day. Guess what they are listening ...
Monday, August 24, 2015
The Book of Luke: My Fight for Truth, Justice, and Liberty City byLuther Campbell
1:46 PM
The raw and powerful true story of how one man invented Southern Hip-Hop, saved the First Amendment, and became a role model for his disen...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Kanye West: Hip-Hop Mogul
7:01 AM
Even at a young age, Kanye West’s love for music gave him opportunities to make money. Even though Kanye had the chance to attend college...
Jay-Z: Hip-Hop Mogul
6:54 AM
Chronicles the life of the rapper who rose out of poverty to become one of the world's most popular musical artists, a CEO, and a phil...
50 Cent: Hip-Hop Mogul
6:48 AM
The life that 50 Cent was born into was anything but easy. From growing up without a father, to drug dealing, to being shot nine times and...
Saturday, July 25, 2015
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--andWhy It Matters
1:45 PM
Hip-hop is in crisis. For the past dozen years, the most commercially successful hip-hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatur...
The New H.N.I.C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop
12:45 PM
“Those who are hip have always known that Black music is about more than simply nodding your head, snapping your fingers, and patting you...
LAbyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur andNotorious B.I.G., the Implication of Death Row Records' Suge Knight,and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal
12:08 PM
Acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan follows Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective who in 1997 was called to investigate a co...
Monday, July 20, 2015
Ludacris: Hip-Hop Mogul (Hip-Hop Moguls)
6:16 AM
Ludacris knew from a young age that he wanted to work in the music industry. But while most rappers don’t usually go this route, attending...
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African Migration
6:49 AM
In Hip Hop Ukraine, we enter a world of urban music and dance competitions, hip hop parties, and recording studio culture to explore uniq...
Saturday, July 18, 2015
The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama
7:04 AM
Following his groundbreaking explorations of the blues and American popular music in Escaping the Delta and How the Beatles Destroyed Ro...
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Hip Hop Family Tree Three-in-On - Featuring Cosplayers
6:17 AM
Featuring Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree series and Dash Shaw's Cosplayers! Piskor's half features excerpts from all three ...
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Diary of a Madman: The Geto Boys, Life, Death, and the Roots of Southern Rap
9:55 AM
From Geto Boys legend and renowned storyteller Scarface, comes a passionate memoir about how hip-hop changed the life of a kid from the s...
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