Why white kids love hip-hop Book

This author has a simplistic writing style that is refreshing.

Before I begin any book, I've made it a practice to research an author to get a context from which the writers perspective/storyline is coming. This is advice I took from a lecture by KRS-ONE. Coincidentally, KRS-ONE is one of Hip-Hops original defining artists, and an authority in the study and history of the genre. He lived it. He isn't experiencing or speaking from the outside, he is Hip-Hop. He's mentioned in this book. I'd listen to KRS-ONE lecture about Hip-Hop before I would a learned scholar or intellectual because many of them interpret Hip-Hop from the outside looking in, but he was a part of the movement. I feel that way about this AUTHOR as well. He is an authority in Hip-Hop culture because he was working in the Hip-Hop community and interacting with many of the artists as a young Afrikan-American MALE around the time when Hip-Hop was being created and transformed. Remember, Hip-Hop is not that old of a genre. This author was a journalist, activist, and historian, working in the New York Hip-Hop scene, documenting the history of this music, and traveling the world experiencing the evolution of Hip-Hop firsthand. This book is excellent if you want to gain perspective on the origins of Hip-Hop and how it appeals to people other than the Afrikan-Americans who created it. It informs about Hip-Hops political influences and continues the story of "Afrikan music" and how it comes into form.

Hip-Hop is most definitely something to study and follow. I am Hip-Hop, a unifying force, even having been born after its conception, I follow it, I research it because it addresses important parts of American and world history.

5 stars because the book encourages the pursuit of knowledge.