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Original Gangstas: Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of...
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- ISBN
- 0316344850
- Book Title
- Original Gangstas : Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Hachette Books
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4in
- Genre
- Music, Social Science
- Topic
- Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop, History & Criticism, Popular Culture
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 19.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
Hachette Books
ISBN-10
0316344850
ISBN-13
9780316344852
eBay Product ID (ePID)
236924675
Product Key Features
Book Title
Original Gangstas : Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop, History & Criticism, Popular Culture
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Music, Social Science
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
19.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml3531
Reviews
"The book offers plenty of pleasures and surprises, giving an authoritative investigation of the familiar rivalries and controversies of gangsta rap, but also intimate scenes of intensely bright, sharp-witted young artists figuring out their form.... Westhoff constructs a political backdrop that highlights the importance of rap as an American art form... [A] highly readable and important history."-- St. LouisPost-Dispatch, " Original Gangstas is as real as it gets if you want to know the so-called 'gangsta rap' scene. Ben Westhoff refrains from using rumors and innuendos, and instead reports the facts, and he tells all sides of this music movement. The book goes into depth about many stories I'd only previously heard via the streets. As the first DJ to play almost everyone mentioned in the book, I found Original Gangstas compelling reading. Thank you, Ben Westhoff, for this great book!"-- Greg Mack, "The Godfather of Hip Hop Radio," former KDAY DJ, current host of the nationally syndicated "The Greg Mack Show", "Original Gangstas takes readers to the source, the battered communities and difficult lives that spawned an unlikely musical revolution. Eazy and Dre, Tupac and Snoop-Westhoff admires his subjects' music talent but isn't afraid to expose their darkest secrets. His research is exhaustive, while his prose is concise, and the result is an unforgettable history of the last time music was ever really dangerous ."-- Stephen Witt, author of How Music Got Free, "Invaluable... [Westhoff's] book will stand as a comprehensive guide to an inner-city movement that conquered the world . "-- Publishers Weekly, "Scrupulouslyresearched with many incisive revelations, this may be the best book everwritten 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 easyheroes or villains."-- Rolling Stone, "Westhoff could have even trimmed his prose down to bullet points and the story still would have leapt off the page. The standard of the reporting is that high on its own.... The facts ... are messy but Westhoff arranges them with a humility and expertise uncommon in music writing.... If you are interested to know what actually happened during the rise of West Coast rap music, Original Gangstas is as close to the facts as you're going to get."-- Alex Dwyer, Passionof the Weiss, "Westhoff manages to knit together all the group's outsized personalities, feuds, fist fights and drama into a stunning and entertaining read.... [His] detailed recounting of the long history of Death Row is required reading even for those who may think they know the story."-- New York Daily News, " Original Gangstas shows how the rap West was won. A social and cultural study to read along with a head nodding-soundtrack 'fo sho.'"-- Chuck D, Public Enemy, "This is the hip-hop book of the season, and it gives readers a thorough and engaging history of the West coast rap scene."-- Bookish, "As eloquently written as it is immensely raw in content. To borrow one from Ice Cube, it's a 'no vaseline' sort of affair.... Original Gangstas reads like classic investigative magazine journalism and stands alongside Check the Technique , Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff Chang, and The Big Payback by Dan Charnas as a standard-bearer sure to age like a Dre track.... A seriously compelling page-turner."-- Chris Faraone, DigBoston, "An incisive, rigorously reported history... Original Gangstas ... shines a light into every nook and cranny of the N.W.A story... Westhoff has a gumshoe's eye, a deadline writer's efficiency, and a novelist's sense of place and time."-- Chicago Reader, "Westhoff ... was never content to sit at his desk .... [His] kind of shoe-leather reporting ... is once again on glorious display in Original Gangstas , the culmination of five years of reporting."-- Village Voice, "A provocative, multifaceted portrait of essential rap pioneers who ushered the hip-hop music scene to greatness.... As raw, authoritative, and unflinching as the music his narrative chronicles, Westhoff comprehensively uncovers the factual roots of the gangsta rap movement and admirably credits those whose footprints paved the way for the younger rappers emerging today.... An elaborately detailed, darkly surprising, definitive history of the LA gangsta rap era."-- Kirkus Reviews (starred review), "Insightful... Westhoff's history is especially relevant amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement."-- Booklist, "[ Original Gangstas ] delves deeply into the history of hip-hop on the West Coast, meticulously unearthing layer after layer of the true story not covered in other books or movies... An informative page-turner that sheds an unbiased light on the founding figures who created the gangsta rap genre."-- Riverfront Times, "I trust Ben Westhoff. I trust him to report a story and I trust him to tell a story, and that's exactly what he's done here in Original Gangstas . He's taken what's always felt like an almost impossibly knotted string of storylines and plot points in gangsta rap, the most turbulent version of the most popular music on the planet, and turned them into an airtight and unflinching book. Original Gangstas is as resolute as the people and ideas it sets out to profile, and that is no small feat."-- Shea Serrano, New York Times bestselling author of The Rap Year Book, "[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
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2017-561123
Dewey Decimal
782.421649
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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