25 classic albums from the '80s and '90s are lovingly and extensively profiled by acclaimed rap journalist Brian Coleman in this impressive volume, making it mandatory reading for all Hip-Hop junkies.

    Now, more than forty years into his career and armed with an incredible memory, BLADE sits down with Chris Pape to reflect on growing up in the Bronx in the turbulent 1970s, and recounts the highs and lows of his storied career, holding nothing back. BLADE is considered The King of Graffiti because, by 1980, after painting 5,000 wildly creative trains, he stopped counting. This book parallels the New York graffiti movement almost from its inception, moving through its glory years in the mid-1970s, when BLADE earned his title, and ending in the global art scene, where he remains a major presence. BLADE helped New York graffiti become internationally famous by making it look fun, and, for reasons of quantity, quality, and, perhaps above all, for sheer spirit, BLADE may very well be the most popular graffiti artist with his peers.

     To date, there are no books devoted exclusively to black women that integrate performance auto/ethnography and media studies from a hip hop feminist perspective. This book serves as a three-sided intervention against a textually dominated feminist media studies, a white-centered feminist third wave theory, and a masculinist hip hop cultural project. Aisha S. Durham not only reclaims her voice in these three spaces, she also rewrites her hip hop history by returning to the intellectual, cultural, and physical places she calls home. The book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students interested in media and cultural studies, race and ethnic studies, and gender and sexuality studies.

    

    Peterson explores a variety of "underground" concepts at the intersections of African American literature and hip-hop culture, using Richard Wright, KRS-One, Thelonious Monk, and the tradition of the Underground Railroad, among other examples. He explores the manifestations and the attributes of the underground within the context of a more panoramic picture of African American expressivity, situated at black cultural and conceptual crossroads.

    This book is your ultimate resource for Chief Keef. Here you will find the most up-to-date 79 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Chief Keef's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Chiefin Keef - Legal issues, Cash Out - Career, 2013 BET Hip Hop Awards - 2013, 1017 Brick Squad - Artists, 1017 Brick Squad Records - Artists, Trap House 4, Pound Cake / Paris Morton Music 2 - Remixes, Chief Keef - Music career, Young Scooter, Chiefin Keef - Glo Gang, Music executive - Notable music executives, 808 Mafia - Tarentino, Fredo Santana, Englewood, Chicago - Notable residents, Chief Keef - Rhymefest and Lupe Fiasco, Finally Rich - Singles, Hate Bein' Sober - Controversy, Record executive - Notable music executives, Zaytoven - Migos Rich the kidd - Streets On Lock (2013), Finally Rich - Personnel, Reincarnated (film) - Plot, Bang 3 - Singles, 808 Mafia - 12 Hunna, Reincarnated (documentary) - Plot, 808 Mafia - Lex Luger, Slim Dunkin, Club Paradise Tour - Opening acts, King L - Career, Riff Raff (rapper) - 2010–2012: SODMG, Mad Decent, Various mixtapes, Chiefin Keef - Early life, Lil Reese - Music career, Bang 3 - Background, Salute Me or Shoot Me 4 (Banned from America), Slim Dunkin - 2013-present, Logic (rapper) - 2013: Def Jam signing and Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever, Reincarnated (film) - Production, Young Chop - Biography, Back from the Dead (mixtape), Hold My Liquor, Fat Trel - Musical career, Auto-tune - In popular music, Autotune - In popular music, August 15 - Births, and much more...