Original Gangstas
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Original Gangstas by Ben Westhoff
In the late 80s, a group of high school dropouts, drug dealers, and ex-cons spoke out against racial injustice and police brutality. They did it through hip-hop. Their explosive popularity put their Los Angeles neighborhood of Compton on the map. They gave a voice to disenfranchised African Americans across the country. And they quickly redefined pop culture across the world. Their names remain as popular as ever--Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur. Music journalist Ben Westhoff shows how this group of artists shifted the balance of hip-hop from New York to Los Angeles. He shows how N.W.A.'s shocking success lead to rivalries between members, record labels, and eventually an all-out war between East Coast and West Coast rappers. In the process, hip-hop burst into mainstream America at a time of immense social change, and became the most dominant musical movement of the last thirty years. At gangsta rap's peak, two of its biggest names--Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls--would be murdered, and the surviving superstars would have to make peace before their music collapsed in its own violence. Exhaustively reported and masterfully written, ORIGINAL GANGSTAS is a monumental work of music history that will offer news-making stories about a legendary group of artists, some living, some dead.
Scrupulously researched with many incisive revelations, this may be the best book ever written about the hip hop world* S. Leigh Savidge, Academy Award nominee and co-writer of Straight Outta Compton *
[Adds] fresh detail to the oft-told stories ...[A] history that won't settle for easy heroes or villains. * Rolling Stone *
[A] captivating chronicle... Central to Westhoff's research are original interviews with key figures balanced with the author's efforts to frame the music as a piece with the surrounding social and political upheaval... He doesn't flinch in providing a rounded picture of the history of the genre, in which the danger wasn't confined to the music * Library Journal *
[Adds] fresh detail to the oft-told stories ...[A] history that won't settle for easy heroes or villains. * Rolling Stone *
[A] captivating chronicle... Central to Westhoff's research are original interviews with key figures balanced with the author's efforts to frame the music as a piece with the surrounding social and political upheaval... He doesn't flinch in providing a rounded picture of the history of the genre, in which the danger wasn't confined to the music * Library Journal *
Ben Westhoff is a freelance writer based in New Jersey. (Shut it.) His work has appeared in Spin, Village Voice, Pitchfork and on NPR's website. He likes blended whiskey, but his wife Anna can drink him under
the table.
the table.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780316383899 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316383899 |
| Titel | Original Gangstas |
| Autor | Ben Westhoff |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Little, Brown & Company |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2016-12-29 |
| Seitenanzahl | 432 |
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