The biggest thing in hip-hop - literally

A (massive) new tome charts rap's evolution from underground artform to global pop movement'Hip-hop started out in the heart, now everybody's trying to chart," rapped Lauryn Hill in her 1997 song Superstar. A critique as pithy as it is damning, Hill's rhyme is brought to mind by a new (and huge) book charting rap's evolution over the past three decades, from underground artform to global pop movement.With previously unpublished photographs, essays and a foreword by Afrika Bambaataa, its publi...

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