The Hip Hop Tree

""The Hip Hop Tree" is an extraordinary addition to the growing bibliography of work depicting this genre's broad cultural dimensions. The Hip Hop and civil rights generations poetically converse with the ancestors within its outstretched limbs."
--Hashim Shomari, former aide to a U.S. Senator, activist and author of "From the Underground: Hip Hop Culture as an Agent of Social Change" "Without the "hip-hop is dead" cliches and revisionist history that mar many a work about this culture, "The Hip Hop Tree" is a fresh, fluid and enjoyable collection of serious work. For both the hip-hop outsider and insider, the claimant and the hater, this book places things in a necessary context--with style."
-Akiba J. Solomon, hip-hop journalist & cultural critic