Rap: The Lyrics

By Lawrence A. Stanley

This book contains the complete lyrics to 200 old school rap songs, with a history and overview of this musical form up until the early nineties. Once dismissed as a fashionable music form, rap is a vital force in American culture itself. From music awards to McDonalds adverts, sounds of rap have permeated the media. Controversies caused by groups such as Public Enemy, and sometimes coarse language and lyrics of the street have caused the public at large to scrutinize popular music in an attempt to control it. Like every other genre of music, the lyrics run from socially aware to hedonistic and everything in between.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140147888
• ISBN13: 9780140147889
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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After starting to listen to hip-hop music in the mid eighties, I was very curious to read the lyrics of hip-hop's most influential tracks. It's not revolutionary but it is a nice piece of publishing that should belong into everyone's shelf as far as there is a need to look beyond the fence.