What books on hip hop have you read ? ?

[Razor Reader]

This was good talked about the failed Jay Z Ford truck deal.

I avoided this book too. Something about the tone of this book just doesn't sit right.

Some of these authors come off as predatory Interlopers what anything else.

 

[Asicz]

Ego Trip's Book Of Rap Lists- must-have
Check the Technique Vol. 1 & 2
Def Jam, Inc.
My Infamous Life
Hip-Hop Raised Us
The Art Behind The Tape-book about the mixtape culture
Unbelievable: Life, Death, & Afterlife of B.I.G.[/QUOTE\]

this egotrip book was good too

 

[Bugsmoran]

Yeah I really Scarface book a few months back. It was ok but he really didn't go into depth into some subject matters but I understand why. It was sad to hear that Jay Prince really wasn't giving him the money that face should have been making .

Yeah that book let me down

I was expecting something a lot better from a great storyteller like Scarface

 

[Bugsmoran]

The Vibe History of Hip Hop

I got that book as a gift when it came out

Dope book

 

[JodyHiighroller]

Lol...RBX was like we aint all day and you bout to trip over some pieces of chicken?

 

[mbewane]

well you missed these 2

that new Wu book about the selling of Once upon a Time in Shaolin is trash

Good looking out! I'm not in the US so I get less info, and more of a going to a book shop than buying online type guy...will have a look at these

Get the audio book. It's Prodigy reading the book himself.

Thx for the tip!

And Merry Xmas brehs

 

[Yippee Ki Yay]

How was rap crack and murder ?
Seth Ferranti strikes as really suspect.

I enjoyed the book and thought it was quite imformative as i didn't know much about Alpo and Rich Porter .
I liked that at the start of each chapter there was a line about them from different rap songs. Chapter 6 starts "Uptown was Alpo son heard he was kingpin, yo". Nas Memory Lane Illmatic 1994
I prefered reading the book to watching the film Paid In Full

 

[Danie84]

Wu-Tang Manual & Tao of the Wu makes the cypher complete

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

I enjoyed the book and thought it was quite imformative as i didn't know much about Alpo and Rich Porter .
I liked that at the start of each chapter there was a line about them from different rap songs. Chapter 6 starts "Uptown was Alpo son heard he was kingpin, yo". Nas Memory Lane Illmatic 1994
I prefered reading the book to watching the film Paid In Full

the Game Over documentary(not the one narrated by Jada) came out before the Paid in Full movie. That's great also

 

[Razor Reader]

I enjoyed the book and thought it was quite imformative as i didn't know much about Alpo and Rich Porter .
I liked that at the start of each chapter there was a line about them from different rap songs. Chapter 6 starts "Uptown was Alpo son heard he was kingpin, yo". Nas Memory Lane Illmatic 1994
I prefered reading the book to watching the film Paid In Full

So the whole book is about rap quotes on alpo and rich porter ?

 

[Yippee Ki Yay]

So the whole book is about rap quotes on alpo and rich porter ?

No the book is about Alpo and Rich Porter but as so many rappers have sort of looked up to them, they get mentioned in so many rap song. From Jay Z,Common, the Game, LL Cool J to many others they have all quoted their names in their rap songs.
Seth Ferranti has just included some of these quotes and put them at the beginning of each chapter. Sorry i should have worded it better. Each chapter starts with a quote from a different rap song and then tells you who wrote the song and what album it came from.

 

[Razor Reader]

No the book is about Alpo and Rich Porter but as so many rappers have sort of looked up to them, they get mentioned in so many rap song. From Jay Z,Common, the Game, LL Cool J to many others they have all quoted their names in their rap songs.
Seth Ferranti has just included some of these quotes and put them at the beginning of each chapter. Sorry i should have worded it better. Each chapter starts with a quote from a different rap song and then tells you who wrote the song and what album it came from.

Thanks. Seth Ferranti strikes me as a white boy that profits off black people stories and struggles. I dont trust him.

 

[Razor Reader]

This book is basically about toasting and the culture of the black Hustler. It was written before Hip Hop was even considered a thing.

It goes into history of toasting and most of the toast that were popular in the 50 and 60s covers most of the toast that will were inside America's prison system.

This book is a must have on two different fronts

1) People who want to understand the true has 3 of Hip Hop have to really the culture of the black Hustler and toasting.

2) People interested in poetry the art of emceeing delivery rhyme schemes.

 

[Razor Reader]

Yeah I had that eagle trips people can racism as well as The Big Payback. The book of racism was corny but the big payback is one of my favorite books on hip hop.

 

[Yippee Ki Yay]

Thanks. Seth Ferranti strikes me as a white boy that profits off black people stories and struggles. I dont trust him.

Well that is the only book i have read of his, and i thought it was alright, i was thinking about getting his book on the Supreme team but it didnt have the best reviews in Amazon.co.uk although the reviews were better on Amazon.com. I decided to get Ethan Brown version of it as it had a much better reviews