Download or read book Lyrical Assassins written by Lamonte Collyear and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyrical Assassins: 50 of the Greatest Prophet Emcees is an illustration of my personal tribute to the gifted men and women whose extraordinary oratory skills have garnered my attention to listen, learn, admire, and respect. Hip-hop music has been through quite a few transformations during its existence. Despite the ups and downs, hip-hop has lived a very fruitful life. Rap artists have invented some of the most dynamic creations of music while entertaining a mass audience of fans nationwide and abroad. This book represents my personal favorites from number 1 to 50, with a list of honorable mentions and top fifty rap groups.
Download or read book DVS Mindz written by Geoff Harkness and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 99.9% of aspiring rappers never make it in the music industry. So why do we only hear the stories of the ones who do? DVS Mindz might be the greatest rap group you’ve never heard of. Formed in Topeka, Kansas, in the mid-1990s, they developed a reputation for ferocious rhyming and frenetic live performances. In their heyday, DVS Mindz released a critically acclaimed CD, received nominations for prestigious awards, and opened for legends such as Wu-Tang Clan, Run-DMC, and De La Soul as well as KC icon Tech N9ne. But the group struggled with creative differences, substance abuse, ego battles, and money issues, and they split up in 2003. Geoff Harkness takes readers on a unique two-decade journey alongside the members of DVS Mindz, chronicling their childhoods, their brush with success, and what became of them in the years that followed. Based on more than one hundred hours of video and audio recordings from 1999 to 2022, this fly-on-the-wall account offers a backstage pass into the recording studios and radio stations, video shoots and house parties, nightclubs and concert halls of the Kansas City-Lawrence-Topeka music scene circa 2000. DVS Mindz is at once a compulsively readable group biography of four talented MCs, a vibrant voyage through the forgotten history of local hip hop, and a breathtakingly real story of struggling to achieve big dreams.
Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-12-05 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Download or read book Pale Horse Rider written by Mark Jacobson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living in a time of unprecedented distrust in America... Faith in the government is at an all-time low, and political groups on both sides of the aisle are able to tout preposterous conspiracy theories as gospel, without much opposition. “Fake news” is the order of the day. This book is about a man to whom all of it points, the greatest conspiracist of this generation and a man you may not have heard of. A former U.S. naval intelligence worker, Milton William Cooper published his manifesto Behold a Pale Horse in 1991. Since then it has gone on to sell hundreds of thousands of copies, becoming the number-one bestseller in the American prison system. According to Behold a Pale Horse, JFK was assassinated—because he was about to reveal that extraterrestrials were about to take over the earth—by his driver, an alien himself; AIDS is a government conspiracy to decrease the population of blacks, Hispanics, and homosexuals; and the Illuminati are secretly involved with the U.S. government to manage relationships with extraterrestrials. Cooper died in a shootout with Apache County police in 2001, one month after September 11, in the year in which he had predicted catastrophe. In Pale Horse Rider, journalist Mark Jacobson not only tells the story of Cooper’s fascinating life but also provides the social and political context for American paranoia. Indeed, with the present NSA situation and countless other shadowy government dealings often in the news, aren’t we right to suspect that things may not be as they seem?
Download or read book Music in American Life 4 volumes written by Jacqueline Edmondson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 2530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of the relationship between American culture and music as defined by musicians, scholars, and critics from around the world. Music has been the cornerstone of popular culture in the United States since the beginning of our nation's history. From early immigrants sharing the sounds of their native lands to contemporary artists performing benefit concerts for social causes, our country's musical expressions reflect where we, as a people, have been, as well as our hope for the future. This four-volume encyclopedia examines music's influence on contemporary American life, tracing historical connections over time. Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories That Shaped Our Culture demonstrates the symbiotic relationship between this art form and our society. Entries include singers, composers, lyricists, songs, musical genres, places, instruments, technologies, music in films, music in political realms, and music shows on television.
Download or read book Dangerous Wordplay Read Between The Lines written by Adrian White and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thought provoking wordplay at its intellectual finest with aggressive overtones, supernatural undertones and spiritual connotation. In this second book the author's quill journeys thru a gamut of poetic styles and fiery emotions to tell his own story - inspiring the reader. "Dangerous Wordplay" is the next level evolution of "Third Eye Open, A Year In The Life... Poetry's Awakening Thru Struggle" creatively magnified. When a poet finds his voice not even the stars can contain him. Prepare to be unplugged.
Download or read book Sleeping Gods written by Lisa Ceneri and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lyric and Dramatic Poetry 1946 82 written by Aimé Césaire and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: over emergent literature and will show him to be a major figure in the conflict between tradition and contemporary cultural identity.
Download or read book Who Shot Ya written by Ernie Paniccioli and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly thirty years ago, Ernie Paniccioli, considered by many to be the James Van Der Zee of the hiphop generation, began photographing graffiti art throughout New York City as well as the young people creating it. Armed with a 35-millimeter camera, Paniccioli literally recorded the beginning salvos of hiphop, today the most dominant youth culture on the planet. Be it Grandmaster Flash at the Roxy, a summer block party in the Bronx, the fresh faces of Jay-Z and Will Smith, the cocksure personas of Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., and Eminem, or the regal grace of Lauryn Hill, Ernie Paniccioli has been there to showcase hiphop’s emerging talent. With more than 200 photographs that have been culled from a vast archive, Who Shot Ya? is the first major pictorial history of hiphop culture.
Download or read book Lyrical Grim Reaper Street Poet Tales written by Allen Simmons and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS PUBLICATION IS THE STREET POEMS FROM ALLEN J. SIMMONS JR. MY WORDS ARE MY OWN...AND THESE WORDS ARE FROM MY MIND AND SOUL! PLEASE ENJOY MY WORKS!
Download or read book Chinese Films Abroad written by Yves Gambier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Chinese films made and shown abroad roughly between the 1920s and the 2020s, from the beginning of the international exchange of the Chinese national film industry to the emergence of the concept of soft power. The periodisation of Chinese cinema(s) does not necessarily match the political periods: on the one hand, the technical development of the film industry and the organisation of translation in China, and on the other hand, official relations with China and translation policies abroad impose different constraints on the circulation of Chinese films. This volume deals with the distribution and translation of films from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Chinese diaspora. To this end, the contributors address various issues related to the circulation and distribution of Chinese films, including co- productions, agents of exchange, and modes of translation. The approach is a mixture of socio- cultural and translational methods. The data collected provides, for the first time, a quantitative overview of the circulation of Chinese films in a dozen foreign countries. The book will greatly interest scholars and students of Chinese cinema, translation studies, and China studies.
Download or read book Lyrical Journeys Of My Heart written by Jamie (Mz. Rhapsody) Hall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncut poetry from inside the mind of a lyrical diva that keeps it real. Journey inside and experience as many emotions as you can handle be it gripping pain that plucks at your heart strings or a little lust that will have you needing a cold shower all in all it stems from a loving heart. Caution adult subject matter.
Download or read book Bases Covered written by Regel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book is in depth & may question or answer some of your beliefs. It is to give our generation a choice. Choices are important in life. In the beginning GOD gave us a choice. Decisions affect us and those around us. Decisions are more important than a lot really open there eyes of. This book is about choices in what you read; learn from reading & hearing on the societies air-ways. Some things corrupt & some things educate, it is for the New Generation and the future, thats due to get involved well after Im gone.
Download or read book Rap Pages written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Greek Classics Didactic and lyric poetry written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rigoletto A lyric drama in three acts by F M Piave founded on Victor Hugo s Le Roi s amuse edited and translated by M Maggioni as represented at the Royal Italian Opera Covent Garden Ital and Eng written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assassins Anonymous written by Rob Hart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The best kind of thriller. . . . Suspenseful, sentimental, and ultimately redemptive, Assassins Anonymous is a can’t-miss novel.” — S. A. Cosby, author of All the Sinners Bleed In this clever, surprising, page-turner, the world’s most lethal assassin gives up the violent life only to find himself under siege by mysterious assailants. It’s a kill-or-be-killed situation, but the first option is off the table. What’s a reformed hit man to do? Mark was the most dangerous killer-for-hire in the world. But after learning the hard way that his life’s work made him more monster than man, he left all of that behind, and joined a twelve-step group for reformed killers. When Mark is viciously attacked by an unknown assailant, he is forced on the run. From New York to Singapore to London, he chases after clues while dodging attacks and trying to solve the puzzle of who’s after him. All without killing anyone. Or getting killed himself. For an assassin, Mark learns, nonviolence is a real hassle.
