Few outside the Hip-Hop genre know about the true creative forces behind influential masterpieces. -Ronin Ro, author of Have Gun Will Travel. -DJ Evil Dee of Black Moon and Da Beatminerz A rarity in mainstream publishing: a truly essential rap history.
It really shows how these albums were made and touches the music fiend in everyone. -Jeff Chang, author of Can\'t Stop Won\'t Stop All producers and Hip-Hop fans must read this book.
Brian Coleman\'s writing is a lot like the albums he covers: direct, uproarious, and more than six-fifths genius.
This is the book that belongs on the stacks next to your wax.
Insightful, raucous, and addictive, Check the Technique transports you back to hip-hop\'s golden age with the greatest artists of the \'80s and \'90s.
Studio craft and street smarts, sonic inspiration and skate ramps, triumph, tragedy, and take-out food-all played their part in creating these essential albums of the Hip-Hop canon.
Performers, producers, DJs, and b-boys-including Big Daddy Kane, Muggs and B-Real, Biz Markie, RZA, Ice-T, and Wyclef-step to the mic to talk about the influences, environment, equipment, samples, beats, beefs, and surprises that went into making each classic record.
The format: One chapter, one artist, one album, blow-by-blow and track-by-track, delivered straight from the original sources.
A longtime scribe for the Hip-Hop nation, Brian Coleman fills this void, and delivers a thrilling, knockout oral history of the albums that define this dynamic and iconoclastic art form. ., De La\'s 3 Feet High and Rising, and Wu-Tang\'s Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). .
That\'s a damn shame, because few outside the game know about the true creative forces behind influential masterpieces like PE\'s It Takes a Nation of Millions. & Rakim - The Fugees - KRS-One - Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Public Enemy - The Roots - Run-DMC - Wu-Tang Clan - and twenty-five more Hip-Hop immortals It\'s a sad fact: Hip-Hop album liners have always been reduced to a list of producer and sample credits, a publicity photo or two, and some hastily composed shout-outs.
A Tribe Called Quest - Beastie Boys - De La Soul - Eric B.
Now, a longtime scribe for the Hip-Hop nation delivers a thrilling, knockout oral history of the albums that define this dynamic and iconoclastic art form.
Few outside the Hip-Hop genre know about the true creative forces behind influential masterpieces
