Foreword by Shepard Fairey.
As featured in Best stocking-filler books of 2017 - The Guardian
If you want to understand our culture. To learn knowledge itself. Truth about the art form of poetry in motion. The struggle of our community through rhyme and rhythm. This is the book that inspired me long before I found my place in hip-hop. The power of self-expression. Unapologetically. Taught by the teacher himself. Chuck D!!!
Kendrick Lamar
This book is required reading for those who claim to know hip-hop, love hip-hop, and want their information from a true Master and General of the hip-hop culture...Public Enemy #1, Chuck D!
Ice-T
Chuck D wasn't put here to play any games. He created the greatest hip-hop album in my opinion to date, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. But the very first minute he sonically appeared to us, I knew rap was changed forever. Power, awareness, strength, and militancy is his stance in a world obsessed with punishing poor people. I knew he would righteously and boldly die so that a little young boy he didn't even know from Queensbridge could live. He attacked wickedness head-on being the rappin' rhino terror that he is. He represented for all of us putting his life on the line and making the right music fighting for hip hop, the youth, truth, and justice. Chuck D made the lane for people like me to walk.
Nas
Reading this book is like reliving my life all over again. Chuck D is Dope!!!
LL Cool J
In the more than 40 years since the days of DJ Kool Herc and "Rapper's Delight," hip-hop and rap have become a billion-pound worldwide cultural phenomenon that reaches well beyond music, into fashion, movies, art and politics. Yet there is no definitive history of the genre - until now.
This massive compendium details the most iconic moments and influential songs in the genre's recorded history, from Kurtis Blow's "Christmas Rappin'" to The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill to Kendrick Lamar's verse on "Control." Also included are key events in hip-hop history, from Grandmaster Flash's first scratch through to Tupac's holographic
appearance at Coachella.
Throughout the book, Chuck offers an insider's perspective on the chart toppers, artists and key moments. Illustrating the pages are more than 150 portraits from mADurgency, an artist collective specialising in art and design for the hip-hop community.
Roxie Nafousi
Roxie Nafousi
Tessa Bickers
Adele Zeynep Walton
Sarah Hornsley
Laura Shepperson
Aamna Qureshi
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Steve Cavanagh
Emma Chapman
Elizabeth Gill
Hanna Thomas Uose
Diane Ladd
Gregory Maguire
Ana Huang
Helen Nagle-Smith
Elora Cook
Aman J. Bedi
Hannah Deitch
Elsie Silver
Venki Ramakrishnan
Katherine McLaughlin
Vinson Cunningham
Tilly Rose
Robert Ingpen
Genevieve Kingston
Jane Thynne
Scott Walker
Bruce Jones
Chetna Makan
Hillary Yablon
Dr Tara Porter
Aman J. Bedi
Brandon Sanderson
Rosalind Brown
Kate Kemp
Jessie Hewitson
Christopher Buehlman
Suzanne O’Sullivan
Tim Budgen
Andrew J. Scott
Oliver Moody
Mick Herron
Carolina Rabei
Ella Dove
Bella Swift
Adam Rutherford
Lucy Score
Tor Freeman
Kuchenga Shenjé
Philippe Sands
Patricia Graham
Adam Forrest Kay
Tobias Buck
L.A. MacRae
Haru Yamada
Tiffany Yu
Caroline Reid
M. R. Carey
M. R. Carey
Michael Mansfield
Elise Kova
Clare Mackintosh
Nalini Ramachandran
Kate Kemp
Ella Frears
Giles Murray
Walter Tevis
Tad Williams
Joanne Harris
Josh Malerman
Natalie Lawrence
Petroc Trelawny
Ace Atkins
Martin Salter
Chris Moore
Ivanna Dump
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Hannu Rajaniemi
Dylan Jones
Daisy Dunn
Brian D. Mclaren
Artemis Cooper
Sarah E Hill
Valerie Boyd
Caroline Montague
James Doty
Oonagh Stransky
Cole Arthur Riley
Kim Sherwood
Mikael Krogerus
Mikael Krogerus
Mikael Krogerus
Mikael Krogerus
Mikael Krogerus