The History of Hip Hop: Volume 2

by Eric Reese

Hip Hop raised me. How about you?Picture Hip Hop in the year 1920! Only one hip hop history book tells you how it all started before Brooklyn & the Bronx!Alas! You have a hip hop book for all ages! Perfect for studies, education, memorization, basic and advance research of the genre, the History of Hip Hop is for you!

This rap history book puts you directly in the minds of the young American hip hop family tree of MCs who with the funky beat and dope-ass lyrics fought through streets of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles in the early days of the 70s and 80s with this new spirited soul of urban poetry. Thus, a hip hop consciousness of "Black Americana" spread across the USA, UK and many cities worldwide.

What you'll uncover in this hip hop book series which you won't find elsewhere:


A deep look at Hip Hop's earliest influences and why the the hip hop genre rose to prominence after Disco & Soul
Constitutions of Hip Hop & Rap Culture
Underground Rap and its evolution
Theories on the Hip Hop's Future
Old School vs New School Rappers
Greatest moments and highlights from 1920s-2000s
A detailed list and description of Hip-Hop genres and subgenres (A must-read)
Hip Hop movements across the globe from the UK, Jamaica, Japan and beyond
This music legacy continues to expand its sway, and know it's sure it's here to stay.
So, now you know. Don't pass up on getting all three volumes of your Hip Hop book series today by clicking Buy Now!

Genres: Music, Hip Hop, History, Nonfiction

202 pages, Paperback

Published June 28, 2019

About the author

Eric Reese was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is the recipient of the first Mayoral Scholarship of Philadelphia (1993) and the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Human Relations Award (1989).

Reviews

[Don Bennie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I wish I could give a lower rating.

By PAGE 3 the author has misspelled (Salt 'N' ) Pepa and Afrika (Bambaataa), and (MC) Lyte's names.

I wanted to claw out my eyes reading this sophomoric drivel written for someone from another planet that has no idea about what the author is talking about.

[Emma · Rating 1 out of 5]

interessant aber furchtbar geschrieben. die kapitel machen gar keinen sinn, da sind mega viele fehler drin und ich hab das gefühl dass da manche sachen doppelt und dreifach wiederholt werden. weiß auch nicht warum ich das zu ende gelesen hab.

[Angela Charles · Rating 4 out of 5]

This audiobook is a lot to take in. Just because it is 2 hours long does not mean that it is not a note worthy listen. If you have ever wanted to know the true origins and the background of hip-hop this is the book for you. The author, Eric Reese does more than tell you about mainstream hip-hop but breaks it down into sub sections. I enjoyed the fact that he mention certain forms of hip-hop that does not get as much recognition like gangster rap does. Being of Haitian descent I enjoyed the fact that he mentioned Haiti and what they do for hip-hop. Also there are a lot of people who enjoy K-Pop but did not realize that K or J-Pop was formed because of American Hip-Hop.

There were at times where the narrator, William Butler, sounded as a professor and not as someone who enjoyed what they were narrating. For that reason I had to give this audiobook a 4.5 and not a 5. It was well written and I learned a lot. The name of this book does not seem to with the content. However for me that was a good thing. This is so much more and I am glad this was written.

[Bill Shannon · Rating 1 out of 5]

I really don't understand who the hell this book is for. It can't be for newbies because there's not enough context to make the timeline of events have any kind of resonance for a person who is foreign to hip-hop culture. And it cannot be for hip hop heads, because any hip hop head who has ever spent more than 5 minutes exploring the world of rap music in the '80s, 90s and 2000s knows every single fact that has been explored in this book.

The worst part about this book was that I happened to listen to the audio book, and it is, by far, the worst-narrated book I've ever listened to. Not only does the narrator sound like he is cold-reading a book report, but he mispronounces multiple names of rappers and groups, that any person who has any association with pop culture would already know. He pronounced Suge Knight as "Soog;" He pronounced Kanye West as "Cayenne West." Mobb Deep is Mob DEPP. The RZA and GZA are the R. Z. A. and the G. Z. A. It is a goddamn embarrassment, and I don't know how the hell it passed muster with Audible.com.

[Andrew Brin · Rating 1 out of 5]

DO NOT BUY OR READ THIS BOOK. this is the worst written book I have ever seen published in my life. I assumed it was written by a 2022 AI, but no, published in 2017, it’s unlikely that it was an AI. Still, if you just prompted any AI today to write you a 20 page history of Hip Hop it would be a million times better and easier to read. With far fewer typos and misspellings.

[Paul SWITZER]

Average, at best

Very amateurishly presented, but containing a lot of interesting info. There are probably better books on the subject out there.