About this ebook
Hip hop left the Bronx and never looked back. Volume 7 takes the tour: Tokyo's B-boys, Lagos's rhyme assassins, Marseille's graffiti guerrillas, South African poets who weaponized verses. And it starts where hip hop's DNA started — the Caribbean: Jamaican sound systems, King Tubby's dub experiments, U-Roy's toasting, and a Kingston kid named Kool Herc who carried it all to 1520 Sedgwick Ave on August 11, 1973.
INSIDE THIS VOLUME:
• The Caribbean root: sound system culture, King Tubby, and U-Roy — the blueprint before the Bronx
• Asia rises: Tokyo's B-boy scene and Japan's lifelong love affair with the culture
• Africa talks back: Lagos rhyme assassins and South African poets turning verses into weapons
• Europe's front line: Marseille's graffiti guerrillas and the neighborhoods that made hip hop their own voice
One culture. Every continent. No passport required.
Featured in The Source's National Reading Month roundup of top hip-hop history books.
THE COMPLETE SERIES:
Vol. 1 — Origins
Vol. 2 — The 80s Golden Era
Vol. 3 — Rhythms of Resistance: 90s Hip-Hop
Vol. 4 — Beats of the New Millennium
Vol. 5 — 2011–2020
Vol. 6 — Trap
Vol. 7 — Worldwide: you're here
Vol. 8 — The Quiz Book: prove you know all 50 years
The Bronx gave it birth. The world gave it a future.
Topics: hip hop, rap, music history, African American culture, urban culture, music biography, music education, cultural studies, hip hop culture, rap artists, music industry, Black history, music evolution, urban music, musical genres, hip hop origins, rap legends, music analysis, cultural movements, music reference, music appreciation, contemporary music history, musical influence, social commentary, music and society, entertainment history, performing arts
Readers of: Jeff Chang, Dan Charnas, Nelson George, Tricia Rose, Jay-Z, Questlove, Shea Serrano, Bakari Kitwana, S. Craig Watkins, Mark Anthony Neal, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hanif Abdurraqib, Touré, Danyel Smith, Erica K. Blount, Michael Eric Dyson, Nikki D. Giovanni, Joan Morgan, Adam Bradley, Rakim, Chuck D, KRS-One, Kendrick Lamar, Ice-T, Russell Simmons, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Danyel Smith, Kathy Iandoli, Marcus Reeves, Brian Coleman, Vikki Tobak
