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A richly illustrated study of the world of rap music profiles fifteen of the top hip-hop artists, including Russell Simmons, LL Cool J, Queen Latifah, and Busta Rhymes, and assesses the political, social, and cultural factors that have influenced the music. Original.
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Something of a budget-priced art book for rap fans, Move the Crowd gets over on the strength of its page-size photographs of Ice Cube, Flavor Flav, A Tribe Called Quest, and many more. Relying on a decade's worth of magazine and newspaper interviews by the two authors, the book often feels stuck in the early '90s. (Heard anyone name-check the Afros lately?) The Ehrlichs toss out quote after quote, vaguely acknowledging a theme before moving on to another; to say that this method leads to a lack of narrative flow is like saying Snoop Dogg curses a lot. The lack of verbal context--ironic in a hip-hop book--also leads to gaffes such as the straight-faced use of a Vanilla Ice quote ("I got stabbed, I've stolen cars... People can't accept that a white kid did grow up in the streets") when the rapper's middle-class past was exposed before "Ice Ice Baby" was even off the charts. In the end, it's the great visuals that make this one move. --Rickey Wright
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Gregor Ehrlich is a writer living in New York City, whose work has appeared in Spin, Might, Hits, Pulse, New York, Interview and other publications.
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- PublisherMTV
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0671027999
- ISBN 13 9780671027995
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages144
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