Born to use mics
Subtitle: reading Nas's Illmatic
By: edited by Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai.
Contributors: Dyson, Michael Eric.; Daulatzai, Sohail.
Publisher: Basic Civitas Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780465002115
Subjects: Nas -- (Musician); Nas -- (Musician) -- Criticism and interpretation; Rap (Music) -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: It was signified / Nama; title: NY state of mind / Sohail Daulatzai; title: Time is illmatic : a song for my father, a letter to my son / Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr; title: It's yours : hip hop worldviews in the lyrics of Nas / James Peterson; title: Critical pedagogy comes at halftime : Nas as black public intellectual / Marc Lamont Hill; title: Memory lane : on jazz, hip-hop and fathers / Mark Anthony Neal; title: One love / Michael Eric Dyson; title: One time 4 your mind : embedding Nas and hip-hop into a gendered state of mind / Gaunt; title: Represent, Queensbridge, and the art of living / Eddie S. Glaude Jr; title: It ain't hard to tell : a story of lyrical transcendence / Imani Perry.