| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 338 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Grandmaster get high -- Son of Kurt -- Disco sucks -- Party time -- The broken arm -- Jason Mizell -- Krush Groove 1 -- Disco fever -- Rock box -- Taking the throne -- Russell and Rick -- Kings of rock -- The silver screen -- The kid with the hat -- Proud to be Black -- The mainstreaming of hip-hop -- War and peace -- The Long Beach episode -- It's the new style -- Def pictures -- Rhyming and stealing -- Suing profile -- It's called survival -- Leaving hell -- Ohio -- You talk too much -- Run ruins everything -- Endgame -- The party's over -- Loss and remembrance. |
| Summary |
The year is 1978. All over America kids are watching Dance Fever, Michael Jackson is poised to become the next major pop star, and in Hollis, Queens, 14-year-old Darryl McDaniels--who will one day go by the name D.M.C.--busts his first rhyme. Darryl's friend Joseph Simmons--now known as Reverend Run--thinks Darryl's rhyme is pretty good, and he becomes inspired. Soon the two join forces with a DJ--Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell--and form Run-D.M.C. Managed by Run's brother, the trio become the defiant creators of the world's most celebrated and enduring hip-hop albums--and in the process, drag rap music from urban streets into the corporate boardroom, profoundly changing everything about popular culture and American race relations. Journalist Ro delivers a meticulously researched behind-the-music tale of family, friendship, betrayal, murder, and the building of the culture and industry known as hip-hop.--From publisher description. |
| Subject |
DMC (Musician)
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Jam Master Jay, 1965-2002.
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Rap musicians -- United States -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0060781955 |
| Standard No. |
9780060781958 (hardcover : alk. paper) 52495 |
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