whose groundbreaking book Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America which was published in 1994. To be sure, there were many journalists who were important chroniclers of ...

Only a handful of songs by the Roots make the list ... an introduction to a centennial edition of his book, later renamed “Hip-Hop Is Still History.” It’s during this Afrofuturist thought ...

is the animating spirit of Simmons' book. "Oftentimes, I'm often thinking about hip-hop in so many other different ways," Simmons says. "I love the music, but it's so much more than just the ...

The Awesome Book of Rap, Rhyme and Putrid Poetry is a book about raps and rhymes. There is plenty to read about snot, pus and slime. My favourite part of this book is called 'And that's a rap.' Here ...