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the Experience Music Project oral history of hip-hop's first decade
By Fricke, Jim & Ahearn, Charlie
- ISBN
- 978-0-30681-224-8
- Publisher
- Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, c2002.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on January 15, 2003
Here are two books that attempt to tell the history of hip-hop via words and pictures. Paniccioli's slick but uninspired Who Shot Ya? proves that this genre has yet to find its Annie Leibovitz. While the range of his subjects is impressive-included are hip-hop pioneers like Fab Five Freddy as well as recent rappers la Eminem-his approach is not. The numbing iteration of stiff, flash-heavy head shots is relieved only by a scattering of artless, unfocused motion snaps. And although former Vibe magazine editor Powell (Step into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
