Author: Vibe Magazine, Alan Light (Editor)
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
Date Published: September 1999
Format: Trade Paper
"A history? No. A story, really. A tale from the dark side. In this book, hip hop
is all. It's always there. Like hip hop, this book is about the intense kind of aspiration
that comes from having little. About holding and rhyming into a microphone. Mixing and
scratching. Guns pain blood. Desire desperation truth true love. Art and mystery and
metaphor. The singularity of voice. The magnificence of ingenious sampling. The glory of a
beat. This book is that story."
-- From the Preface by Danyel Smith, editor-in-chief of VIBE, the voice of the hip hop
generation, presents the essence of hip hop.
Music, fashion, dance, graffiti, movies, videos, and business: it's all in this brilliant
tale of a cultural revolution that spans race and gender, language and nationality. The
definitive history of an underdocumented music genre, The VIBE History of Hip Hop tells
the full story of this grassroots cultural movement, from its origins on the streets of
the Bronx to its explosion as an international phenomenon. Illustrated with almost 200
photos, and accompanied by comprehensive discographies, this book is a vivid review of the
hip hop world through the eyes and ears of more than 50 of the finest music writers and
cultural critics at work today, including Danyel Smith, Greg Tate, Anthony deCurtis, dream
hampton, Neil Strauss, and B�nz Malone.
Includes FREE 4-song CD with a new, unreleased Run-DMC track from their forthcoming album,
Crown Royal, as well as classic songs by other artists from the new CD Profilin': The Hits