Product Description: Photographer Mike Schreiber has worked with some of hip hop's biggest names, capturing them for all the world to see. His humanistic approach to life and work is reflected in these mostly black and white photographs. His photos capture the true essence of hip hop cultures and perspectives with an end result that is refined yet undeniably honest in its raw and gritty tone...read more

Presents portraits of well-known hip-hop musicians, record label owners, and music producers who had influential roles in the rise of the rap music industry.

A photographic portrait of hip hop profiles the genre as a socio-political art form and chronicles its formation from the streets of New York City to a billion-dollar industry, as reflected in more than two hundred color images of top performers. Reprint.

Released to celebrate ten years of VIBE, a magazine released by Qunicy Jones in 1993 to celebrate hip hop fashion, this bold survey of the last ten years of rap includes profiles of Snoop Doggy Dogg and Puff Daddy as well as the controversial image of Tupac Shakur in a straightjacket. 40,000 first printing.