Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang, D.J. Kool Herc

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation Jeff Chang, D.J. Kool Herc ebook
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780312425791
Publisher: Picador
Page: 560

We're all still reeling that the 20th anniversary of Hip-Hop's Super Bowl featured the Nacirema Dream as a headliner. Damn you Kendrick Lamar But when it was time to make history, Fox Boogie was nowhere to be found. Stop calling it a classic, it was a good album, but not classic…if that was a classic then Kendricks must have been legendary cause it wasnt touching that. Can't Stop Won't Stop ranks among the best. Many good books have been written about the history of hip-hop music and the generation that nurtured it. Where Kitwana narrowly An almost overly expansive vision imbues Can't Stop Won't Stop, the most historically disciplined and chronological of hip-hop scholarship's founding texts. Excerpts focusing on the lead-up and aftermath of the LA riots from Jeff Changs Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation,. King says: We as fans won't let the the new generation live. Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation: Jeff. Approaching hip-hop through its founders, artists, fans and activists—all of whom come across as pivotal co-creators—Chang begins by expanding the definition of the hip-hop generation that Bakari Kitwana offered in his important manifesto, The Hip-Hop Generation.