And It Don't Stop The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years

Name: And It Don't Stop The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
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ISBN: 9780571211593

ISBN-10: 0571211593

ISBN-13: 9780571211593

Edition: 2004

Authors: Raquel Cepeda, Nelson George

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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." And It Don't Stop, 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…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 9/29/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Nelson George is the author of several non-fiction books, including "The Death of Rhythm & Blues" & "Hip Hop America", both nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, & three novels, "One Woman Short", "Seduced", & the "Essence" Blackboard bestseller "Urban Romance". An award-winning journalist, he is also an accomplished screenwriter (including "Strictly Business" & "CB-4") & an Emmy Award-winning producer of HBO's "The Chris Rock Show". He lives in Brooklyn, New York.



Foreword



Introduction



1980s : looking for the perfect beat


Physical graffiti : breaking is hard to do



Afrika Bambaataa's hip-hop



London rocks, Paris burns, and the B-boys break a leg



The South Bronx was getting a bad rap until a club called disco fever came along



Rappin' with Russell : Eddie Murphying the flak-catchers



Teddy Riley's new jack swing



Armageddon in effect



1990s : pop goes the weasel


The house that rap built



The nigga ya hate to love



The rebirth of cool



Native sons



Caught up in the (gangsta) rapture : Dr. C. Delores Tucker's crusade against "gangsta rap"



Hell-Raiser



Eazy living



Diatribe



Chronicle of a death foretold



Haitian homecoming



Allah's on me



No respect : a critic at large



What the white boy means when he says yo



Foxy Brown is the illest



The show, the after-party, the hotel



Don't hate me because I'm ghetto fabulous



The hip-hop nation : whose is it? : in the end, black men must lead


2000s : get rich or die tryin'


Fool's paradise



The writing on the wall : graffiti culture crumbles into the violence it once escaped



Planet rock



Rhythmic heart of the kings of rock : Jam Master Jay, 1965-2002



Keepin' it unreal : selling the myth of black male violence, long past its expiration date



The professional