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Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 422 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A history of West Coast hip-hop and rap traces the efforts of then-unknown artists including Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur to work through challenges ranging from drugs and gangs to corruption and racism to create their generation's defining music movement.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Acting as both investigative journalist and irreverent critic, Ben Westhoff journeys across the southern United States in a small Hyundai to document the phenomenon of southern hip-hop. The exclusive interviews with the genre's prominent players take many forms—watching rappers make it rain" in a Houston strip club, partying with The 2 Live Crew's Luke Campbell, visiting the gritty neighborhoods where T. I. and Lil Wayne grew up, and
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