To Live and Defy in LA : : How Gangsta Rap Changed America / / Felicia Angeja Viator.
How gangsta rap shocked America, made millions, and pulled back the curtain on an urban crisis. How is it that gangsta rap—so dystopian that it struck aspiring Brooklyn rapper and future superstar Jay-Z as “over the top”—was born in Los Angeles, the home of Hollywood, surf, and sun? In the Reagan er...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION. They Don’t Even Know
- CHAPTER 1 . The Batterram
- CHAPTER 2 . Hardcore LA
- CHAPTER 3 . The Boys in the Hood Are Always Hard
- CHAPTER 4 . Somebody’s Gonna Pay Attention
- CHAPTER 5 . Without a Gun and a Badge
- CONCLUSION . LA County Blues
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX