Get It Now Nuthin But A G Thang Illustrated By Eithne Quinn Available Through Digital Edition
book is useful to trace the beginnings of gangsta rap into mainstream America through the commercialization of its most prominent rappers, notably Ice Cube.
Quinn also delves into a generating force behind the development of gangsta rap as an enterprise: the shift from American industrialization, which left many ghetto peoples poor and unemployed, and the government abandonment of local community organizations for its minorityparticularly black youthwhich left young rap pioneers such as Dr.
Dre and N. W. A. to discover ingenious ways to create a profit and life for themselves, outside of the doomed incarcerated and drug life threatening so many Black ghetto youth.
After watching the movie, "Straight Outta Compton," I was compelled to learn more about the history and culture of gangsta rap, or as Ice Cube puts it "reality rap.
" This book is a good place to learn about the sociopolitical and socioeconomic circumstances against the black community that inspired the emergence of gangsta rap from the "underground": the basements and homes of some of rap music's most pioneering musicmakers.
I've been reading a ton about hip hop lately, and this book was super fun and satisfying, The chapters on 'bad man lore' and 'tricksters' were especially tasty, A really great examination of gangsta rap culture, and its rise to prominence, The book is very sociological though, The author uses a lot of huge words, almost to prove she can use big words, Besides having to reread numerous passages, trying to figure out what they hell she was getting at, it was a very informative book.
idiotic Though Black women, misogyny, and female rappers weren't explored in nearly half as much detail as males though the author makes this salacious claim that made me PAUSE: "Since gangsta lyrics are centrally preoccupied with dramatizing power relations, I would argue that the opposite sex is implicitly and often explicitly construed as powerful in gangsta rap.
The “hard man” strikes out at anything that threatens his ego or stature, If romantic partners possessed no power to injure and had little narrative importance then so much time would not be spent firing brutal verbal salvos in their direction.
in misogynist rap there lies the tacit acknowledgement of womens power and importance, " and, though, like many other books I've read, there was this sense of "leave the poor black men alone, they go through enough, maybe black women are kinda to blame etc etc", a very, very interesting read.
To add to the intrigue, the author is a Caucasian woman, . . so there's that. Focusing on the artists Ice Cube, Dr Dre, the Geto Boys, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur, Quinn explores the origins, development, and immense popularity of gangsta rap.
Including detailed readings
in urban geography, neoconservative politics, subcultural formations, black cultural debates, and music industry conditions, this book explains how and why this music genre emerged.
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