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47/100Critics
50/100Scholars
Author:
Questlove, Ben Greenman
Publisher:
AUWA
Date:
June 11, 2024
A comprehensive fifty-year history of the hip-hop genre, from renowned artist Questlove.
What The Reviewers Say
Questlove, writing with Ben Greenman, is attentive to the genre’s splendor as well as its stumbles. He’s sympathetic to the aspirational and at times gleefully materialistic ethos of rap’s most mainstream figures.
Lively, if self-limiting.
Occasional informal shifts from objective and omniscient narration of 'important events' that sound like traditional history to incredibly personal and subjective opinions.
For all the author’s wisdom and charm, his blizzard of names and facts is likely to overwhelm, rather than exhilarate, the uninitiated. The book at times resembles an annotated playlist.
