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Gunshots in My Cook-Up: Bits and Bites from a Hip-Hop Caribbean Life
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Atria Books
Publication date January 1, 2004
Pages 224
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780743451376
ISBN-10 0743451376
Dimensions 0.75 by 5.25 by 8.25 in.
Weight 0.58 lbs.
Original list price $19.99
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Summary
The former editor-in-chief of The Source serves up a hard-hitting memoir of his life covering the hip-hop scene, from out-of-control parties to suicide and gun-toting violence, in a thought-provoking study of one of today's most influential art forms. Reprint.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Selwyn Seyfu Hinds -- award-winning former editor-in-chief of The Source -- presents an extraordinary memoir/history of hip-hop as seen through the eyes of one fan-turned-luminary. The moment nine-year-old Hinds heard "Rapper's Delight" in Guyana, he embarked upon an amazing, if sometimes contentious, relationship with hip-hop -- one that would continue through his migration to Brooklyn as a teenager and on through adult life. Here, he takes readers to a murky nightclub in the violent streets of late-eighties Brooklyn; to an Ivy League campus caught up in political rap during the early nineties; to a curbside in Los Angeles where Notorious B.I.G. has just been shot; to the achingly poor streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as a sea of black humanity surges to touch a hip-hop native son....
Interspersing recollections of life in the hip-hop trenches with profiles of figures like Lauryn Hill, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Dr. Dre, Wyclef Jean, and more, Hinds traces the heights and depths of his hip-hop love affair. Like the Guyanese rice dish "cook-up," Gunshots in My Cook-Up ingeniously pulls wide-ranging elements into an irresistibly cohesive dish.

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Hardcover
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from Atria Books (October 1, 2002)
9780743407410 | details & prices | 304 pages | 5.75 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $23.00
About: The former editor-in-chief of 'The Source' offers a memoir of his youth as an immigrant from Guyana and his life covering the hip-hop scene, from gun-toting violence to the vitality of the music and its performers.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780743451376
 
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Reprint edition from Atria Books (January 1, 2004)
9780743451376 | details & prices | 224 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.58 lbs | List price $19.99
About: The former editor-in-chief of The Source serves up a hard-hitting memoir of his life covering the hip-hop scene, from out-of-control parties to suicide and gun-toting violence, in a thought-provoking study of one of today's most influential art forms.

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