Today, Hip-Hop culture dictates trends in everything from fashion and advertising to literature, film and theatre. In the 70s, gifted youth with a lot of imagination forged a new style of music from spare parts. Emceeing was a product of pure streetwise ingenuity, extracting rhythms and melodies from existing records and mixing them up with searing poetry chronicling life as they experienced it. Some emcees spread positive messages and lessons from their hearts while others rhyme about money, sex and drugs, incorporating the good and bad times that surround their existence.

HIP-HOP & RAP could be a useful tool for parents, educators, counselors, and other professionals who work with youth to introduce and discuss issues surrounding sexuality, substance abuse, misogyny, materialism, violence, criminal behavior, and so on. It’s an excellent means of referencing the lyrics of the U.S. artists who are emulated by youth internationally. HIP-HOP & RAP chronicles the changing trends in lifestyle, slang, clothing, social norms, etc. of the Hip-Hop community in the past 25 years. The book’s cover includes the “Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics” symbol. 

Some of the 175 song lyrics detailed in the book include those of Arrested Development, Black Rob, Black Star, Bone Thugs’n’Harmony, BDP, Foxy Brown, Busta Rhymes, C-Murder, City High, Common, Coolio, Cypress Hill, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, DMX, Da Brat, Das EFX, De La Soul, Digable Planets, Dr, Dre, E-40, EPMD, Missy Elliot, Eminem, Eric B. and Rakim, Fabolous, Fat Joe, 50 Cent, Freak Nasty, Fu-Schnickens, Gang Starr, Guru, Heavy D & The Boyz, Ice Cube, Ice-T, Ja Rule, Jay-Z, Wyclef Jean, Junior M.A.F.I.A., Jurassic 5, KRS-One, Kriss Kross, LL Cool J, Lil’ Kim, Lil’ Romeo, Lost Boyz, Monie Love, Ludacris, Luniz, MC Hammer, MC Lyte, Craig Mack, Mase, Method Man, Pras, Mobb Deep, Mystikal, N.W.A., Nas, Nate Dogg, Naughty by Nature, Nelly, Notorious B.I.G., Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Onyx, OutKast, P. Diddy, Public Enemy, Redman, The Roots, Run-DMC, Salt N Peppa, Will Smith, Snoop, Sporty Thievz, Sugarhill Gang, 3rd Bass, Tone Loc, A Tribe Called Quest, Trick Daddy, 2Pac, US3, Warren G, Wreckx-N-Effect, Wu-Tang Clan, Young MC and more! 

Preface by Spence D.
Publication Date: December 8, 2003
Trade Paperback Original / ISBN: 0-634-04964-X
$18.95 U.S. 
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