rap (music)

"Explains Hip Hop culture's ongoing role in helping Black youths to live long, healthy, and productive lives. Connects the latest research conclusions about Hip Hop's influences with actual examples of its practice and applied value in action"--Amazon.com.

Discusses hip-hop, including how each dancer has his own style, what they wear, the type of shoe, and where they like to dance.

Introduces young readers to hip-hop music through rhyming verse and three dimensional clay illustrations. Offers a guided tour visiting legendary hip-hop figures such as Run D.M.C., LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, Salt-N-Pepa, Tupac, and more.

"This book takes readers from 1979, widely regarded as the moment rap became recognized as part of the cultural and musical landscape, and comes right up to the present, with Shea Serrano ... discussing, debating, and deconstructing the most important rap song year by year"--Amazon.

Examines the growth of hip hop during the last three decades of the twentieth century, discussing its impact on American society, and looking at how advertisers, magazines, fashion companies, MTV, and others are using hip hop as a way to reach not only African-American youth, but all young people.

"[A] collection of essays ... [that] consider[s] Eminmen's place in hip hop, the intellectual underpinnings of his work, and the roles of race, gender and privilege in his career, among various other topics"--Back cover.

Amid rising gang violence, the crack epidemic, and police brutality, a group of unlikely voices cut through the chaos of late 1980s Los Angeles: N.W.A. Led by a drug dealer, a glammed-up producer, and a high school kid, N.W.A gave 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, and Ice Cube. Dre soon joined forces with Suge Knight to create the combustible Death Row Records, which in turn transformed Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur into superstars.

On the first day of school, Rappy the Raptor uses his raps and rhymes to deal with a bully and make a new friend.

Rappy the Raptor tells the story of how he became a rapping Velociraptor, all in rhyme.

Examines the rap genre from a scholarly perspective, and discusses how rap music is put together musically, and how it forms the cultural identity of the artist and audience, and includes an analysis of the music of Ice Cube, the Goodie MoB, KRS-One, the Spookrijders, and Bannock.