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Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists
Ego trip's Book of Rap Lists is more popular than racism! Blacks and whites all agree...
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
December 3rd 1999
by St. Martin's Griffin
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This book must have been an especially strange way to catalogue rap music knowledge back in 1999, when the internet had not yet found its true calling as a dispenser of humorous lists. Nowadays it's a bit of a portal to a time when every rapper went platinum and it was still mostly ok to have a ridiculous East Coast bias.
That bias is actually my biggest problem with this book, which otherwise a lot of fun. It's hard to even blame the book because 1) rap coverage is at its best when i...more
That bias is actually my biggest problem with this book, which otherwise a lot of fun. It's hard to even blame the book because 1) rap coverage is at its best when i...more
Absolutely brilliant compilation of rap-related lists. One of my favorites is Kool Keith's top places to masturbate in public - #1 The bathroom of Sbarro's in Times Square.
Good book to keep on your coffee table to have guests flip through and bring up some discussions on the boom bap days.
Fittingly, I also used it to roll my L's on.
Fittingly, I also used it to roll my L's on.
A very interesting way to learn your hiphop ABCs, entertain yourself with trivia, or just reminisce about "back in the day". Excellent.
Loved it just the amount of research that went in this book will amaze you.I would suggest you get a copy im bummed as mine is stolen.
One of my all-time favorites. I've been re-reading this for ten years.
fun enough to have laying around for flipping through
I'm kind of a list person. I know, I know....hella nerdy. One of the reason's I liked High Fidelity soo much was I could truly identify with a character who creates lists (especially ones regarding music) all the time.
Anyway...this book is full of em. If you want to know who the most sampled artist of all time is, the dopest MC (according to them) etc...It's a fun time...honest it is:)
Anyway...this book is full of em. If you want to know who the most sampled artist of all time is, the dopest MC (according to them) etc...It's a fun time...honest it is:)
There's never been a magazine that captured the humor and feel of hip-hop better than Ego Trip, and this collection of lists -- from the sublime to the very frequently ridiculous -- is endlessly readable.
i love books that use lists and this is the ultimate one along with its brother book "Ego Trip's Big Book of Racism".. it is a listing extravaganza!!!!!!!!!!11
I think that this book is a very good book for the simple fact of the connection between you and music. Gret book overall.
Entertaining, argument-inducing, random but always engaging. This book is essential reading for hip-hop junkies.
a fun read for those who like music and culture lists. do you know people like this?
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This is a good bathroom book.
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