num_pages: 230
description: What is Hip-Hop? In order to answer this question author Andrew J. Rausch interviewed 24 individuals whose creative expressions are intimately associated with the world of hip-hop music and culture. Those interviewed include emcees DJs producers graffiti artists poets and journalists. Topics of these conversations cover the careers of each of these people and their contributions/affiliations with hip-hop as well as their views on different trends within the music.Intended as a celebration of hip-hop music and culture this collection of interviews ranges from the up-and-coming (Akrobatik Rob Kelly) to the legendary (Chuck D Big Daddy Kane). Also interviewed are Eric B. Black Sheep Dres Chip Fu Michael Cirelli Daddy-O DJ JS-1 dream hampton Kokane Kool Keith Kool Rock Ski Keith Murray 9th Wonder Paradime R.A. the Rugged Man Sadat X Shock G Special Ed Spinderella Sticky Fingaz and Young MC.Because many of these artists worked and performed in the so-called golden age of hip-hop they offer insights on the merits and problems of what hip-hop has grown into today. From their candid observations the reader will understand how each of these men and women have contributed to the culture and how each in his or her own way can rightly answer I AM hip-hop.
language: English
title: I Am Hip-Hop: Conversations on the Music and Culture
publisher: Scarecrow Press