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По одному самому важному треку на каждый год – с 1979-го по 2014-й. Каждая глава представляет собой дискуссию, в которой эксперты оспаривают выбранную автором песню и предлагают свой альтернативный вариант. Это журналисты из таких изданий, как Rolling Stone, New York Times, Vice, Pitchfork, Grantland и даже с MTV.

В этой книге собраны все важнейшие исполнители, курьезные истории из их жизней и истории создания песен, заметки и рецензии от лучших музыкальных журналистов.

Отправьтесь в увлекательное путешествие от истоков хип-хопа в 1979 году до современности – по одному треку на каждый год. А эта книга станет лучшим путеводителем! Вы узнаете, как эти треки появились на свет, как они повлияли на хип-хоп и его развитие. Уникальные иллюстрации от талантливого художника делают эту книгу самой нестандартной энциклопедией по музыке – инфографики, портреты исполнителей, "карты стилей" и "карты слов" нарисованы и собраны с юмором и трепетным отношением фанатов и знатоков хип-хопа.

В качестве редактора этой книги выступил музыкальный журналист и переводчик – Никита Величко, автор материалов для "Афиши", The Village, Look At Me, Pitchfork, The Wire, Time Out и многих других иданий.

The Rap Year Book takes readers on a journey that begins in 1979, widely regarded as the moment rap as a genre became recognised as part of music’s landscape and comes right up to the present. Shea Serrano deftly pays homage to the most important song of each year. Serrano also examines the most important moments that surround the history and culture of rap music–from artists’ backgrounds, to issues of race and safety, to the rise of hip-hop and the struggles among its major players–both personal and professional. Covering East Coast and West Coast, famous rapper feuds, chart toppers and show stoppers, The Rap Year Book takes an in-depth look at the last thirty-five years of the most influential genre of music to come out of the last generation. Complete with quizzes, infographics, lyric maps, hilarious and informative footnotes, portraits of the artists, and the occasional rebuttal essay by other prominent music writers, The Rap Year Book is both a narrative and illustrated guide to some of the most iconic and influential songs ever created under the umbrella of rap music. Serrano cites a variety of sources to form his arguments including biographies, magazines and documentaries, as well as his own experiences growing up at a time when hip-hop was becoming a prevalent force in the music industry. With its all-encompassing look at the ups and downs of rap music, and the landmark songs that are its tent-poles, this book will be perfect for anyone who is a fan of the genre.

For readers of Sister Souljah's No Disrespect, Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and Monster by Sanyika Shakur comes the definitive memoir from Ice-T, the acclaimed rapper and actor known for telling it like it is. Ice-T offers his hip-hop generation's Horatio Alger story: the narrative of an orphaned child who, drawn inexorably into a harrowing life of crime, ultimately turns away from the streets and, through self-discipline and a single-minded work ethic, forges a path to international fame as a musician and film and television star.

My life’s been a great story / In the ultimate war / Should I ill or do right? / Make peace or go raw?a??Ice-T, “Exodus” A He’s a hip-hop icon credited with single-handedly creating gangsta rap in the 1980s. Television viewers know him as Detective Odafin “Fin” Tutuola on the top-rated TV drama Law & Order: SVU. But where the hype and the headlines end, the real story of Ice-Ta??the one few of his millions of fans have ever hearda??truly begins. Ice is Ice-T in his own wordsa??raw, uncensored, and unafraid to speak his mind. About his orphan upbringing on the gang-infested streets of South Central Los Angeles. About his four-year stint in the U.S. Army’s famed “Tropic Lightning” outfit. About his successful career as a hustler and thief, the car crash that nearly killed him, and the fateful decision to turn away from a life of crime and forge his own path to international entertainment stardom. Ice by Ice-T is both a tell-it-like-it-is tale of redemption and a star-studded tour of the pop culture firmament. The acclaimed rapper and actor shares never-before-told stories about friends like Tupac, Dick Wolf, Chris Rock, and an antler-clad Flavor Flav, among others. Readers will ride along as Ice-T’s incendiary rock band Body Count narrowly escapes from a riotous mob of angry concertgoers in Milan, and listen in as the music legend battles the self-appointed censors over his controversial “Cop Killer” single. Most of all, Ice is the place where one of the game’s most opinionated players breaks down his own secret plan for living, offering up candid observations on marriage and monogamy, the current state of hip-hop, and his latest passion: doing one-on-one gang interventions and mentoring at-risk youths around the country. With insights into the cutthroat world of the streeta??and the cutthroat world of Hollywooda??Ice is the inspirational story of a true American original.