Product Description: The Houston, Texas, neighborhoods of Fifth Ward, Third Ward and South Park have grown to be hallowed ground for modern rap culture, populated with celebrities, entrepreneurs, support networks and a micro-economy of their own. Photographer Peter Beste (photographer of True Norwegian Black Metal) and writer Lance Scott Walker spent nine years documenting the most influential style in twenty-first-century hip hop and the vibrant inner city culture from which it stems...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.

Discusses the origins and social significance of the blend of heavy metal and hip-hop music called hardcore rap, profiles its stars, and describes the clothing and way of life of its fans--most of them white--known as 'mooks.' (view table of contents)