Download or read book Ill Street Blues written by Joe Martin and published by Nickel City Ent.. This book was released on 2009-12-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up as a kid on the east side of Buffalo, N.Y, Bum knew what it was like to struggle. He didn?t have much of anything. As he grew older the allure of the streets pulled him in. He started selling drugs and making money. Now, at 24, money is a whole other issue. ?More Money, More Problems.? He now has to deal with the hate and jealousy of the other hustlers in the city, as well as the greed of those close to him. With the help of his two right hand men, Mojo and Bumpkin, and the three man clique they call their ?Young Guns? (Y.G?s), he deals with the problems and tries to concentrate on making more money. Will the streets prove to be too much for Bum?#13; #13; Lex is the son of one of the biggest drug dealers in town. He was born into the game. However, he wants to follow his own path. He tries to abandon the streets to pursue his goal of becoming a pro football player, and getting his loved ones out of the streets also. Will his decision to abandon the streets come too late?#13; #13; Billy D is a cold blooded killer, a hit man. After witnessing his father?s murder as a kid, his heart remained cold. Killing came naturally to him, he enjoyed it. Will his joy for murder cause him heartache?#13; #13; Money, Murder and Drugs are the common themes in the streets. This is the story of three young men as they play the streets knowing the streets are not a game.#13; #13; The streets are ill.#13; This is?ILL STREET BLUES#13;

Download or read book Boxed in written by Mark Crispin Miller and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed, controversial, ranging from a melancholy study of rock and roll's descent into show business to a hilarious look at the spectacle that is the Jerry Lewis Telethon, these twenty essays offer an unusual and (ironically) entertaining study of American media by one of its foremost critics.

Download or read book This Life written by Quntos KunQuest and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Life is the debut novel by Quntos KunQuest, a longtime inmate at Angola, the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary. This marks the appearance of a bold, distinctive new voice, one deeply inflected by hiphop, that delves into the meaning of a life spent behind bars, the human bonds formed therein, and the poetry that even those in the most dire places can create. Lil Chris is just nineteen when he arrives at Angola as an AU—an admitting unit, a fresh fish, a new vict. He’s got a life sentence with no chance of parole, but he’s also got a clear mind and sharp awareness—one that picks up quickly on the details of the system, his fellow inmates, and what he can do to claim a place at the top. When he meets Rise, a mature inmate who's already spent years in the system, and whose composure and raised consciousness command the respect of the other prisoners, Lil Chris learns to find his way in a system bent on repressing every means he has to express himself. Lil Chris and Rise channel their questions, frustrations, and pain into rap, and This Life flows with the same cadence that powers their charged verses. It pulses with the heat of impassioned inmates, the oppressive daily routines of the prison yard, and the rap contests that bring the men of the prison together. This Life is told in a voice that only a man who’s lived it could have—a clipped, urgent, evocative voice that surges with anger, honesty, playfulness, and a deep sense of ugly history. Angola started out as a plantation—and as This Life makes clear, black inmates are still in a kind of enslavement there. This Life is an important debut that commands our attention with the vigor, dynamism, and raw, consciousness-expanding energy of this essential new voice.

Download or read book Sweet Street Blues written by Lawrence Blaine and published by All America Distributors Corporation. This book was released on 1978-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Street Blues written by T. A. Houlahan and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book G O A T written by Curtis M. Fowler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rap is a genre of music that will almost always provoke some type of emotion. Our book is based off one of those emotions-- the ongoing debate about who are the greatest rappers of all time (G.O.A.T.). But instead of just throwing our personal opinions out there, we came up with a mathematical system that kept us as honest and objective as possible. Each artist was rated numerically based off ten criteria, and these numbers also included data from public album averages from two different sites. These total numbers put them in order-- not us. We started this project on August 12, 2012, and did not finish until September 30, 2013. So a lot of work, time, integrity, and attention were put into it. This book has been fun and at times chaotic, but it has given us a new appreciation for the genre. Please do not take this book too serious, but respect the work and effort put into it. We would like to give much respect and luv to all the artists keeping Hip Hop alive and respected. Please follow and hit “like” for this GOAT project on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/GOAT50TheBook

Download or read book To the Break of Dawn written by William Jelani Cobb and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With roots that stretch from West Africa through the black pulpit, hip hop emerged in the streets of the South Bronx in the 1970s and has spread to the farthest corners of the earth. "To the Break of Dawn" uniquely examines this freestyle verbal artistry on its own terms. A kid from Queens who spent his youth at the epicenter of this new art form, music critic William Jelani Cobb takes readers inside the beats, the lyrics, and the flow of hip hop, separating mere corporate rappers from the creative MCs that forged the art in the crucible of the street jam.The four pillars of hip hop - break dancing, graffiti art, deejaying, and rapping - find their origins in traditions as diverse as the Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira and Caribbean immigrants' turnstile artistry.

Download or read book Snatch Em written by Robert W. Anderson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zee Jackson, Hassan Winslow, Dex and Greg B are four young men out to take what wealth they can on the streets of Boston. Petty crime is all they know, until they hook up with Frank, who turns them onto lucrative, high-stakes jobs. Twenty-one-year-old Zee has tried his hand at drug dealing, but it never worked out. Hassan is the bully of the group. Dexter, or Fat Dexter as some people call him, also wants to try the drug game, but his mother has an off-and-on addiction, so his conscience gets the best of him. Greg B often wonders why he hangs out with his crew so much, but they have been together for so long that he doesn't have many other friends. Along with the money from the robberies come sex, drugs, and murder. When Zee falls in love, he just wants to live the rest of his life in peace. But if he and the rest of his friends want to enjoy the spoils, they must first survive life on the streets.

Download or read book Somebody Scream written by Marcus Reeves and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many African Americans of a certain demographic the sixties and seventies were the golden age of political movements. The Civil Rights movement segued into the Black Power movement which begat the Black Arts movement. Fast forward to 1979 and the release of Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight." With the onset of the Reagan years, we begin to see the unraveling of many of the advances fought for in the previous decades. Much of this occurred in the absence of credible, long-term leadership in the black community. Young blacks disillusioned with politics and feeling society no longer cared or looked out for their concerns started rapping with each other about their plight, becoming their own leaders on the battlefield of culture and birthing Hip-Hop in the process. In Somebody Scream, Marcus Reeves explores hip-hop music and its politics. Looking at ten artists that have impacted rap—from Run-DMC (Black Pop in a B-Boy Stance) to Eminem (Vanilla Nice)—and puts their music and celebrity in a larger socio-political context. In doing so, he tells the story of hip hop's rise from New York-based musical form to commercial music revolution to unifying expression for a post-black power generation.

Download or read book Hill Street Blues written by Michael Kozoll and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photocopies.

Download or read book SPIN written by and published by . This book was released on 1989-07 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.

Download or read book Comprehensive Annual Financial Report of the City of Chicago Illinois written by Chicago (Ill.). Comptroller's Office and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 24 Bars to Kill written by Andrew B. Armstrong and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most clearly identifiable and popular form of Japanese hip-hop, “ghetto” or “gangsta” music has much in common with its corresponding American subgenres, including its portrayal of life on the margins, confrontational style, and aspirational “rags-to-riches” narratives. Contrary to depictions of an ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, gangsta J-hop gives voice to the suffering, deprivation, and social exclusion experienced by many modern Japanese. 24 Bars to Kill offers a fascinating ethnographic account of this music as well as the subculture around it, showing how gangsta hip-hop arises from widespread dissatisfaction and malaise.

Download or read book The Book of Jose written by FAT JOE and published by Roc Lit 101. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum–selling artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Fat Joe pulls back the curtain on his larger-than-life persona in this gritty, intimate memoir about growing up in the South Bronx and finding his voice through music. “An adrenaline rush . . . buckle up and lean back.”—Spin Fat Joe is a hip-hop legend, but this is not a tale of celebrity; it is the story of Joseph Cartagena, a kid who came of age in the South Bronx during its darkest years of drugs, violence, and abandonment, and how he navigated that traumatizing landscape until he found—through art, friendship, luck, and will—a rocky path to a different life. Joe is born into a sprawling Puerto Rican and Cuban family in the projects of the South Bronx. From infancy his life is threatened by violence, and by the time he starts middle school, he is faced with the grim choice that defined a generation: to become predator or prey. Soon Joe and his crew dominate the streets, but he finds his true love among the park jams where the Bronx’s wild energy takes musical form. His identity splits in two: a hustler roaming record stores, looking for beats; and a budding rapper whose violent rep rings in the streets. As Joe’s day-to-day life becomes more fraught with betrayal, addiction, and death, until he himself is shot and almost killed, he gravitates toward the music that gives him both a voice to tell the stories of his young life and the tools he needs to create a new one. The challenges never stop—but neither does Joe. This memoir, written in Joe’s own intensely compelling voice, moves with the momentum of pulp fiction, but underneath the tragicomedy and riveting tales of the streets and the industry is a thought-provoking story about a generation of survivors raised in warlike conditions—the life-and-death choices they had to make, the friends they lost and mourned, and the glittering lives they created from the ruins.

Download or read book Capital City written by Omar Tyree and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is supposed to be easy and carefree when you are young, but if you live in Washington D.C., that’s not always the case. Flashing back to the 1990s, readers enter the lives of four black men looking to gain money, power, and respect. These four brothas come from different walks of life, but they have one thing in common: they are trying to make fast money in the harsh inner city. However, when the money comes too easily there's usually a price attached...the ultimate price.

Download or read book Hot Man written by Art Hodes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir by the internationally renowned jazz pianist Art Hodes, born in Russia in 1904, is in its own way a blues, a lament for and a celebration of music and musicians we have lost. The last of the living legends among Chicago jazz musicians, Hodes joins with jazz historian Chadwick Hansen to provide a unique perspective on more than seven decades of jazz history. With an honesty not usually found in jazz books, Hot Man captures Hodes's professional career from his apprenticeship in Chicago in the 1920s to the present. The book offers remarkable inside views of gangster clubowners, the great New York jazz clubs and the vicious "jazz wars" of the 1940s, Chicago from the 1950s, the very closed and special world of jazz musicians, the curious relationships between musicians and their audiences, and Hodes's experiences with jazz greats including Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke. No other white musician has given us such a full account of learning to play from black musicians. This intimate journey takes us to a vast circle of fellow musicians, to recording companies and the business of the profession, to Nodes's other career as a writer and editor of the Jazz Record, a publication that existed through most of the 1940s. Hodes's story includes almost thirty photographs and a comprehensive discography, filling a gap in the world of jazz literature.

Download or read book The Unsaid written by Lancell Lindo and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unsaid: Thoughts of a Quiet Man is poetry in a musical format. The title describes the author's personality and speaks volumes about his narrative, creativity, and thought process, giving insight into the mind of a musician and the different stages of conception. Ideas, verses, choruses and bridges, it's all on display for the reader to follow. The author bares his soul on songs like Madonna, a heartfelt plea from one lover to another. They are songs here everyone can