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Hip-hop is history

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2024

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Title:	Hip-hop is history
Author:	Questlove, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	New York : AUWA Books / MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. ©2024
Description:	342 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:	"Questlove traces the creative and cultural forces that made and shaped hip-hop, highlighting both the forgotten but influential gems and the undeniable chart-topping hits--and weaves it all together with the stories no one else knows"--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects:	Hip-hop -- History. Rap (Music) -- History and criticism. Popular music -- History and criticism. Palatine (Ill.) -- BIPOC author. Palatine (Ill.) -- BIPOC subject. Palatine (Ill.) -- Own voices. Grayslake (Ill.) -- BIPOC author. Grayslake (Ill.) -- BIPOC subject. Grayslake (Ill.) -- Own voices.
Genre:	Music criticism and reviews.
Other Author:	Greenman, Ben, author.
Contents:	Introduction -- 1979-1982: What you hear is not a test -- 1982-1987: Love bought you clothes -- 1987-1992: Back is the incredible -- 1992-1997: While I get my proper swerve on -- 1997-2002: Dare me to drive? -- 2002-2007: Excuse me, miss, I forgot your name -- 2007-2012: Pull up in the monster -- 2012-2017: Promise that you will sing about me -- 2017-2022: The Royce got no roof -- 2023: No time to joke around -- 2073: Epilogue: Break of dawn: introduction to Hip-hop is still history -- Hip-hop songs I actually listen to.
ISBN	9780374614072

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