Hip hop raised me
DJ Semtex, 1974-2018
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In 'Hip Hop Raised Me,' DJ Semtex examines the crucial role of hip-hop in society today, and reflects on the huge influence it has had on his own life, and the lives of many others, filling in the gaps of education that school left behind, providing inspiration and purpose to generation after generation of disaffected youths. Taking a thematic approach and featuring seminal interviews he has conducted with key hip-hop artists, Semtex traces the characteristics and influence of hip-hop from its origins in the early 1970s with DJ Kool Herc's Block parties in the South Bronx, through its breakthrough to the mainstream and advent of gangsta rap in the late 1980s, with artists such as Run DMC, Public Enemy and Ice T, to the impact of contemporary artists and the global industry that is hip-hop today.
Main title:
Hip hop raised me / by DJ Semtex ; foreword, Chuck D.
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Edition:
Updated edition.
Imprint:
London : Thames & Hudson, 2018.
Collation:
447 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 28 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: 2016.Includes index.
ISBN:
9780500293959 (pbk)
Dewey class:
782.4'21649782.421649
Language:
English
BRN:
2644584
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