From the gangs of the late 60s to the icons of the new millennium, from the Ghetto Brothers and Universal Zulu Nation organizations to the Hip-Hop activists, Can't Stop Won't Stop presents the Hip-Hop generation in all its grime and 
glory with breadth, wit and style. 

Featuring an introduction by the father of Hip-Hop, DJ Kool Herc, Can't Stop Won't Stop is based on original interviews with DJs, dancers, rappers, graffiti writers, activists, and gang members, with unforgettable portraits of many of Hip-Hop's forebears, founders, and mavericks.

Interviewees include: DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, Kool DJ AJ, Lucky Strike, The Original Jazzy Jay, Jorge "Fabel" Pabon, Chuck D, Ice Cube, King Tee, Benjamin Melendez, Daude & Aqeela Sherrills, Alex Sanchez, Hank Shocklee, Blackie Mercado (Savage Skulls), Crazy Legs, Doze Green, Richie Perez, Chuck Brown, Charlie Ahearn, Carlos Suarez (Ghetto Brothers), Lady Pink, Uncle Jam's Army, Zephyr, James Bernard, Reginald Dennis, Henry Chalfant, Greg Tate, Harry Allen, Fab 5 Freddy, Bom 5, Baye Adofo, Upski, Bill Stephney, Dante Ross, David Hershkovitz, Spar One, Iz the Wiz and many more.

Blending Hip-Hop context and content in astonishing ways, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop is Jeff Chang’s powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the Hip-Hop generation created. Jeff’s book has already landed an extensive excerpt in this month’s issue of Vibe Magazine and drawn significant buzz from across a wide spectrum.

Loop 1: BABYLON IS BURNING 1968-1977

1. Necropolis: The Bronx and the Politics of Abandonment
2. Sipple Out Deh: Jamaica’s Roots Generation and the Cultural Turn
3. Blood and Fire, with Occasional Music: The Gangs of the Bronx
4. Making a Name: Now DJ Kool Herc Lost his Accent and Started Hip-Hop

Loop 2: PLANET ROCK 1975-1986

5. Soul Salvation: The Mystery and Faith of Afrika Bambaataa
6. Furious Styles: The Evolution of Style in the Seven Mile World
7. The World is Ours: The Survival and Transformation of Bronx Style
8. Zulus on a Time Bomb: Hip-Hop Meets the Rockers Downtown
9. 1982: Rapture in Reagan’s America
10. End of Innocence: The Fall of the Old School

Loop 3: THE MESSAGE 1984-1992

11. Things Fall Apart: The Rise of the Post-Civil Rights Era
12. What We Got to Say: Black Suburbia, Segregation & Utopia in the Late 80’s
13. Follow for Now: The Question of Post-Civil Rights Black Leadership
14. The Culture of Assassins: Geography, Generation and Gangsta Rap
15. The Real Enemy: The Cultural Riot of Ice Cube’s Death Certificate

Loop 4: STAKES IS HIGH 1992-2001

16. Gonna Work it Out: Peace and Rebellion in Los Angeles
17. All in the Same Gang: The War on Youth and the Quest for Unity
18. Becoming the Hip-Hip Generation: The Source, the Industry, and the Big 
Crossover
19. The New World Order: Globalization and Counterculture at the End of the 
Century

APPENDIX 
Words, Images and Sounds: A Selected Resource Guide

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Jeff Chang was a co-founder of the legendary SoleSides indie Hip-Hop label, now Quannum Projects, and helped launch the careers of DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker. He is a founding editor of ColorLines Magazine and was a senior editor www.360hiphop.com. 

THE "CAN'T STOP FOR NOTHING TOUR" KICKS OFF FEBRUARY 8!

Jeff Chang's Can't Stop For Nothing Tour is coming to San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, San Jose, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Providence, Boston, Chicago and Minneapolis. Jeff will be joined on special dates by DJ Kool Herc, Benjamin Melendez (Ghetto Brothers), the Original Jazzy Jay, Popmaster Fabel, Martha Cooper, Bakari Kitwana, Raquel Z. Rivera, Glen E. Friedman, and lots more. 

All who purchase a book at these events or bring in their purchased books to be signed will receive a special limited edition Can't Stop Won't Stop/Quannum mixtape, featuring DJ D-Sharp, DJ Icewater, Chief Xcel, the Gift of Gab, Joyo, Lateef and Lyrics Born. The mixtape will also be available through select outlets after the tour. Also keep an eye out for limited 0rigin/Can't Stop Won't Stop t-shirts designed by Mike Stern. Stay tuned for more details.

Visit www.cantstopwontstop.com/appearances.cfm for the details and latest updates!

A PREVIEW OF THE BIG EVENTS

February 8: HOMETOWN KICKOFF RELEASE PARTY (San Francisco) 
7 pm @ Element Lounge 1028 Geary Street (at South Van Ness) SF CA. A Benefit For Media Alliance in conjunction with Quannum, Suggested donation: $7. A reading, book signing and beats featuring special guest DJs: Tomas Palermo (XLR8R) & Umoja (Hi-Fi), Cool Chris, Groove Merchant and DJ Icewater (WestCoastMixtapes.com). Special tote bags courtesy of Triple 5 Soul to all who buy the book, while supplies last!

February 11: UCLA Special Book Release Event (LA)
2:30 pm. In conjunction with the Asian American Studies Center & Asian Pacific Coalition (LA) Co-sponsored by Bunche Center for African American Studies, Chicano Studies Research Center, Dept. of World Arts & Cultures, USAC Cultural Affairs Commission & Academic Affairs Commission Kerckchoff Hall State Rooms (Room 131-135). Talk, Q+A, Signing

February 12: CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP LOS ANGELES RELEASE PARTY
7 pm @ Imix Bookstore 5052 Eagle Rock Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90041. LA Book Reading, book signing and release party. Come hang out all night with special guest DJs: Mike Nardone (KXLU's We Came From Beyond), Egon (Stone's Throw) and B+ (Keepintime and Brasilintime). Special tote bags courtesy of Triple 5 Soul to all who buy the book, while supplies last!

February 16: ASIAN AMERICAN WRITER'S WORKSHOP & ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE FUND EVENT PLUS PANEL DISCUSSION (NYC) 
7 pm @ The Asian American Writers' Workshop 16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A Manhattan, NY. Benefit for AAWW and AALDEF. Reading, Signing and Panel feat. Jeff Chang, Serena Kim (Vibe) Janet Tzou, (Mouther.com) and moderator: Joseph 
Patel (MTV News). Suggested donation: $5

February 17: NYU's URBAN STUDIES SPEAKER SERIES (NYC)
6 pm @ NYU’s Kimball Lounge 246 Greene St. Manhattan NY. Panel discussion on Hip Hop Scholarship and Urban Studies featuring Bakari Kitwana, Jeff Chang and Raquel Z. Rivera.

February 20: JOINT MEDIA LECTURE FEAT. JEFF CHANG & MARTHA COOPER (Brooklyn) 
1:45 pm @ The Brooklyn Public Library celebrating the releases of both Can't Stop Won't Stop and The Hip-Hop Files: 1979-1984. We're double trouble, baby!

February 23: NYC BOOK RELEASE PARTY (BRONX) 
A Tribute to The Bronx In The 70s
A Special Bronx Museum of Art & Tools of War Event 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm @ The Bronx Museum of Art 1040 Grand Concourse (at 165th) Bronx NY 10456. Panel feat. DJ Kool Herc, Benjamin Melendez of the Ghetto Brothers and moderator, Jorge "Fabel" Pabon (RSC). The Original Jazzy Jay on the 1s and 2s! Special tote bags courtesy of Triple 5 Soul to all who buy the book, 
while supplies last! No video cameras permitted. Still cameras OK. Train: 
Take the B or D to 167th or Bus: BX 1 and BX 2 stop in front of museum. 

February 24: PROVIDENCE BLACK REPERTORY THEATRE (RHODE ISLAND) 
10 pm. Book talk and signing with Jeff Chang at the historic Black Rep! 276 Westminster Street Providence, Rhode Island 02903

February 26: NYU CONFERENCE ON PUBLIC ENEMY'S "IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS TO HOLD US BACK... (NYC)
1:45 pm. Jeff Chang in Conversation with PE Photographer/Activist Glen Friedman. Real Talk About Hip Hop and Political Activism. NYU's Tischman Auditorium 40 Washington Square South, between McDougal and Sullivan, Manhattan. 

March 2: A TALK AND BOOK SIGNING AT THREE WALLS (CHICAGO)
7 pm. Come through for a discussion about Can't Stop Won't Stop, Hip-Hop, art and activism at the legendary Three Walls! 119 North Peoria St. #2a Chicago, IL 60607. For more info: 312.432.3972 

March 6: INTERMEDIA ARTS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HIP-HOP EVOLUTION (Minneapolis, MN)
7 pm: Can't Stop, Won't Stop talk with Jeff Chang. 8 pm: Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Evolution: A quarterly event of live performance, breaking, and spoken word by Twin Cities Hip Hop artists! Intermedia Arts 2822 Lyndale Avenue South 
Minneapolis, MN. 55408. For more info: 612-871-4444. 


For a complete list of events, radio and media appearances go to: 
www.cantstopwontstop.com/appearances.cfm

EARLY RAVES

"Not just another publicist-approved Hip-Hop encyclopedia, music writer Chang's sprawling collection of well-researched chronological essays smartly preserves and politicizes three decades of cultural history...Can't Stop Won't Stop 
remains vibrant, relevant, and vital. Grade: A-!"
-Entertainment Weekly

An "engaging and extensive debut", a "balanced assessment of rap's controversial trappings", a "vivid narrative" that "most importantly...documents stories that have been left unrecorded until now, with the oral histories of the gangs and the artists." Starred Review!
-Publishers Weekly

"Hip-hop didn't grow or operate in a vacuum...and Chang shows how political and social events affected and were affected by hip-hop's progress...A fascinating, far-reaching must!"
-Booklist

ADVANCE PRAISE

“With incisive social/historical analysis, lucid description and gripping story-telling, from the intellectual roots of Black cultural and political movements to the emergence of Hip-Hop activism, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop is the most comprehensive book out on Hip-Hop.” 
Henry Chalfant, co-producer Style Wars, co-author of Subway Art and Spraycan Art

“Has any scholar ever loved Hip-Hop so well—and taken it as seriously—as Jeff Chang does in Can’t Stop Won’t Stop? He has written the history of a 
generation that may be surprised to learn not only that it has a history, but that that history is essentially heroic. It is a most welcome achievement.” 
Bill Adler, author of Tougher Than Leather

"Don’t be misled; this is not just another rap book. Can’t Stop Won’t Stop is a potent political treatise, a glance at the 20th century through the social lens of Hip-Hop. Inflammatory, illuminating, and anything but myopic, the scope of Chang’s work is awe-inspiring." 
DJ Shadow, Hip-Hop artist, Endtroducing and The Private Press

“Flow without the ego, intellectualism without Ivory Tower disdain, and, finally, history with heart and passion and fire: Jeff Chang's Can’t Stop Won’t 
Stop manages to go from wide-lens overview to pinpoint accuracy in covering the biggest cultural-political movement of our time. A true accomplishment.” 
Farai Chideya, author of Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters and The Color of Our Future

“This book belongs on your shelf next to Criminal Minded, Illmatic and All Eyez On Me.” 
William Jelani Cobb, Ph.D, author of To The Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip-Hop Aesthetic

“Orale pues—Jeff Chang’s book draws from the fire, verve, rage, injustices, pains, victories, and creativity of a whole generation of marginalized, forgotten, pissed-on and pissed-off youth.” 
Luis J. Rodriguez, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in LA 

“Chang hunts down crucial, long-neglected voices with a beat-digger’s passion, blends them with Flash-worthy dexterity, and hits us with the special 
unreleased extended versions of the stories we thought we already knew, from Kool Herc’s first party to Professor Griff’s last stand. Can’t Stop Won’t Stop is 
a fluid, incisive analysis built from the ground up, with plenty of funky breakdowns.” 
Adam Mansbach, author of Angry Black White Boy and Shackling Water

“Jeff Chang has created a new rhythm in Hip-Hop writing. A must-read and an instant classic.” 
B+ (Brian Cross), photographer, filmmaker Keepintime, and author of It’s Not About A Salary: Rap, Race + Resistance in Los Angeles

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