HIP HOP RAISED ME (PB)

Hip-hop has come of age. In this book, DJ 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. Featuring seminal interviews with key hip-hop artists, Semtex covers the advent of gangsta rap in the late 1980s, with artists such as Run DMC, Public Enemy and Ice T, and discusses their impact of contemporary artists and the global industry that is hip-hop today.