HIP HOP IS HISTORY (HB)

When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn't expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid growing up in a musical family in Philadelphia, it was everything. That kid was Questlove; cofounder of one of hip-hop's defining acts (the Roots) and a multi-Grammy and Academy award winner. This encyclopaedic history of the genre is both an intimate, sharply observed story of a cultural revolution and a sweeping, grand theory of the evolution of the great artistic movement of our time.