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All Music Guide to Hip-Hop: The Definitive Guide to Rap and Hip-Hop

 
 
All Music Guide to Hip-Hop: The Definitive Guide to Rap and Hip-Hop
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All Music Guide to Hip-Hop: The Definitive Guide to Rap and Hip-Hop

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This comprehensive guide is a must-have for the multitude of fans of today's best-selling popular music. The latest in the definitive series, the All Music Guide to Hip-Hop offers entertaining and informative reviews that lead readers to the best recordings by their favorite artists and help them find new music to explore. Informative biographies, essays, and "music maps" trace hip-hop's growth from its roots in urban soul and old-school MCs and DJs, to its mainstream breakout during the '90s and the myriad branches that thrive today.

Product Details:
Paperback: 646 pages
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Publication Date: October 01, 2003
Language: English
ISBN: 0879307595
Package Length: 9.0 inches
Package Width: 7.4 inches
Package Height: 1.5 inches
Package Weight: 2.4 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 3 reviews
 
 
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5Great  Oct 01, 2004
This is one of the best music books I have ever purchased it has reviews on almost every hip hop album ever made for all the Youngsters of the rap game that have no education in hip hop buy this book at once and find something out on Kool DJ Herc-Grandwizard Theodore-Grandmaster Caz the originators if you dont know the Message you dont know rap-Good day

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5Very Nicely Put Together  Dec 05, 2003
Just to reiterate what was mentioned earlier, this book goes nicely in depth, going back to originating artists as well as current mainstream as well as underground heavy hitters. I have alot of fun looking through this guide. Any big Hiphop fan should love this book. There were a few artists I felt should definitely have been included in the book, but were not. However, there was a good effort put into this book.

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5This is the real thing  Oct 11, 2003
This is the real kind of rap music, not just the kind you hear on the radio. This book goes into detail not just the mainstream artists of rap, but also underground favorites. It also rates each artists albums out of five stars. It provides a (usually)small biography on the artist as well as who he/her worked with in the past. The book also gives you a well rounded vision of hip-hop in general by showing you where all the different genres of rap originated, and what distinguishes them. Every time I go to buy an album I look it up here first. It is also very recent, going all the way up to the summer of 2003. Overall, well worth your money.