Street Fiction: Urban Fiction Author Interviews, Urban Fiction News, and Urban Fiction Book Reviews
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The Big Payback takes us from the first $15 made by a "rapping DJ" in 1970s New York to the recent multi-million-dollar sales of the Phat Farm and Roc-a-Wear clothing companies in 2004 and 2007. On this four decade-long journey from the studios where the first rap records were made to the boardrooms … [Read more...]
How to Hustle and Win: Rap, Race and Revolution, Part Two is the highly anticipated follow-up to the bestseller How to Hustle and Win: A Survival Guide for the Ghetto, Part One. Part Two continues where Part One left off, and leads readers down a road to empowerment, self-discovery, and personal … [Read more...]
This title will be available Fall 2011. You may place an order and the item will be shipped when it becomes available. Forward by New York Times bestselling author Teri Woods. Street lit, also known as urban fiction, addresses with unflinching grit the concerns and problems of city living. … [Read more...]
Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age in the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its … [Read more...]
Street lit is also known to its enthusiastic readers as "urban fiction," "ghetto lit," "hip-hop lit," and "gangsta lit." No matter what it's called, it remains one of the most significant and increasingly popular forms of modern literature. This text provides a much-needed resource guide to this … [Read more...]
Who did it and why? Poet, movie star, revolutionary -- Tupac Amaru Shakur was the most popular rapper in the world. No one symbolized the violence at the heart of gangsta rap more than Tupac, and he ultimately fell victim to that violence, gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas at the age … [Read more...]
Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time. According to Jay-Z, "Decoded is first and foremost, a book of rhymes, which … [Read more...]
Tupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete. For the first time in paperback, this collection of deeply personal poetry is a mirror into the legendary artist's enigmatic world and its many … [Read more...]
From the school yards of the South Bronx to the tops of the Billboard charts, rap has emerged as one of the most influential cultural forces of our time. In The Anthology of Rap, editors Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois demonstrate that rap is also a wide-reaching and vital poetic tradition born of … [Read more...]
An exceptional father-son story about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us. Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free love, an autodidact who … [Read more...]
This title will be available Fall 2011. You may place an order and the item will be shipped when it … [Read More...]
Street lit is also known to its enthusiastic readers as "urban fiction," "ghetto lit," "hip-hop … [Read More...]
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