Chicago Hustle and Flow: Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class

by Geoffrey Victor Harkness

Book Overview

On September 4, 2012, Joseph Coleman, an eighteen-year-old aspiring gangsta rapper, was gunned down in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. Police immediately began investigating the connections between Coleman's murder and an online war of words and music he was having with another Chicago rapper in a rival gang. In Chicago Hustle and Flow, Geoff Harkness points out how common this type of incident can be when rap groups form as extensions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816692297
• ISBN13: 9780816692293
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.5"