Mercedes Ladies - Softcover

Sher, Sherri

3.3

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1601830033 ISBN 13: 9781601830036

Publisher: Vibe Street Lit, 2008

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Based on a true story, this gripping account of hip hop's early years follows Sherri Sher, who, growing up in the South Bronx during the 1970s and caring for her eleven siblings, forms an all-girl rap group and discovers that it is hard to earn respect in a male-dominated world. Original.

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About the Author:

Sheri Sher is a founding member of The Mercedes Ladies, the first all-female MC and DJ crew in the history of hip hop. She and the group have been featured on BBC television as well as in magazines such as VIBE, VIBE Vixen, Stress, and The Source, and books including All About Hip Hop, Volumes I & II by David Toupe and Yes Yes Ya'll by Charlie Ahearn. The group received the Hip Hop Heritage award from icast.com in October 2000. Sheri has also worked in the psychiatry and criminal justice fields, and she frequently speaks to young women about self-empowerment. She lives in Harlem U.S.A.

From Publishers Weekly:

Sher's life is the inspiration for this story of hip-hop and life in the Bronx in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Strong-willed Shelly grows up in the Bronx with her multitude of siblings and hard-working single mom at a time when hip-hop is a street-corner phenomenon. Shelly gathers some friends to organize an all-female crew—a rarity in the male-dominated scene—and they hit the streets as the Mercedes Young Ladies. As the Ladies earn respect on the streets, urban life takes its toll: the girls are faced with drugs, violence and poverty. But Shelly and the girls persevere and find themselves running with the big boys. There isn't a fairy tale ending, and Sher takes pains to give a real sense of the burgeoning hip-hop scene, where the game is fast-paced and often unfair. (Mar.)
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