Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
by Mark Costello, David Foster Wallace
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Read in September, 2007
David "Infinite Jest" Foster Wallace and his buddy Mark "Apparently Now A Lawyer" Costello take a rambling, footnote-riffic trip through Rap Music Circa 1990. The writing is great (if you like DFW's general modus), and it's quite often pretty thought-provoking. It's also a great survey of early hip-hop, complete with a Discography of seminal discs.
On the downside, whie the authors confront their Nerdy White Boy status head-on, they never really resolve it. There ar...more
On the downside, whie the authors confront their Nerdy White Boy status head-on, they never really resolve it. There ar...more
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This was put out by Ecco Press -- formerly of Hopewell, NJ -- before DFW's first book came out: early nineties. He and Mark Costello do a sort of Run and DMC, Abstract and Q-Tip, passing of the essayistically flowing mic, and you can bet who's mos def. I read this in 1997 and still remember the part where they dress as rappers more or less to try to infiltrate the hip hop scene of boston's rough neighborhoods, and everyone thinks they're narcs so no one talks to them until they return dressed ub...more
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Read in July, 2001
David Foster Wallace wrote a book on hip hop. Believe it.
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