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Dilla Time

Author : Dan Charnas
Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374721653
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Dilla Time written by Dan Charnas and published by MCD. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER "This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius.” —QUESTLOVE Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century. He wasn’t known to mainstream audiences, even though he worked with renowned acts like D’Angelo and Erykah Badu and influenced the music of superstars like Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson. He died at the age of thirty-two, and in his lifetime he never had a pop hit. Yet since his death, J Dilla has become a demigod: revered by jazz musicians and rap icons from Robert Glasper to Kendrick Lamar; memorialized in symphonies and taught at universities. And at the core of this adulation is innovation: a new kind of musical time-feel that he created on a drum machine, but one that changed the way “traditional” musicians play. In Dilla Time, Dan Charnas chronicles the life of James DeWitt Yancey, from his gifted childhood in Detroit, to his rise as a Grammy-nominated hip-hop producer, to the rare blood disease that caused his premature death; and follows the people who kept him and his ideas alive. He also rewinds the histories of American rhythms: from the birth of soul in Dilla’s own “Motown,” to funk, techno, and disco. Here, music is a story of Black culture in America and of what happens when human and machine times are synthesized into something new. Dilla Time is a different kind of book about music, a visual experience with graphics that build those concepts step by step for fans and novices alike, teaching us to “see” and feel rhythm in a unique and enjoyable way. Dilla’s beats, startling some people with their seeming “sloppiness,” were actually the work of a perfectionist almost spiritually devoted to his music. This is the story of the man and his machines, his family, friends, partners, and celebrity collaborators. Culled from more than 150 interviews about one of the most important and influential musical figures of the past hundred years, Dilla Time is a book as delightfully detail-oriented and unique as J Dilla’s music itself.

The Big Payback

Author : Dan Charnas
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101568119
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Big Payback written by Dan Charnas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There has never been a better book about hip-hop…a record-biz portrait that jumps off the page.”—A.V. Club THE INSPIRATION FOR THE VH1 SERIES THE BREAKS The Big Payback takes readers from the first $15 made by a “rapping DJ” in 1970s New York to the multi-million-dollar sales of the Phat Farm and Roc-a-Wear clothing companies in 2004 and 2007. On this four-decade-long journey from the studios where the first rap records were made to the boardrooms where the big deals were inked, The Big Payback tallies the list of who lost and who won. Read the secret histories of the early long-shot successes of Sugar Hill Records and Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC's crossover breakthrough on MTV, the marketing of gangsta rap, and the rise of artist/ entrepreneurs like Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs. 300 industry giants like Def Jam founders Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons gave their stories to renowned hip-hop journalist Dan Charnas, who provides a compelling, never-before-seen, myth-debunking view into the victories, defeats, corporate clashes, and street battles along the 40-year road to hip-hop's dominance. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

J Dilla's Donuts

Author : Jordan Ferguson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 162356719X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book J Dilla's Donuts written by Jordan Ferguson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James “J Dilla” Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music as “hip hop music” is typically defined; they careen and crash into each other, in one moment noisy and abrasive, gorgeous and heartbreaking the next. The samples and melodies tell the story of a man coming to terms with his declining health, a final love letter to the family and friends he was leaving behind. As a prolific producer with a voracious appetite for the history and mechanics of the music he loved, J Dilla knew the records that went into constructing Donuts inside and out. He could have taken them all and made a much different, more accessible album. If the widely accepted view is that his final work is a record about dying, the question becomes why did he make this record about dying? Drawing from philosophy, critical theory and musicology, as well as Dilla's own musical catalogue, Jordan Ferguson shows that the contradictory, irascible and confrontational music found on Donuts is as much a result of an artist's declining health as it is an example of what scholars call “late style,” placing the album in a musical tradition that stretches back centuries.

Playing Changes

Author : Nate Chinen
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101873493
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Playing Changes written by Nate Chinen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, GQ, Billboard, JazzTimes In jazz parlance, “playing changes” refers to an improviser’s resourceful path through a chord progression. In this definitive guide to the jazz of our time, leading critic Nate Chinen boldly expands on that idea, taking us through the key changes, concepts, events, and people that have shaped jazz since the turn of the century—from Wayne Shorter and Henry Threadgill to Kamasi Washington and Esperanza Spalding; from the phrase “America’s classical music” to an explosion of new ideas and approaches; from claims of jazz’s demise to the living, breathing scene that exerts influence on mass culture, hip-hop, and R&B. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, packed with essential album lists and listening recommendations, Playing Changes takes the measure of this exhilarating moment—and the shimmering possibilities to come.

Bring That Beat Back

Author : Nate Patrin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452963800
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Bring That Beat Back written by Nate Patrin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Grandmaster Flash through crate-digging preservationist and innovator Madlib Sampling—incorporating found sound and manipulating it into another form entirely—has done more than any musical movement in the twentieth century to maintain a continuum of popular music as a living document and, in the process, has become one of the most successful (and commercial) strains of postmodern art. Bring That Beat Back traces the development of this transformative pop-cultural practice from its origins in the turntable-manning, record-spinning hip-hop DJs of 1970s New York through forty years of musical innovation and reinvention. Nate Patrin tells the story of how sampling built hip-hop through the lens of four pivotal artists: Grandmaster Flash as the popular face of the music’s DJ-born beginnings; Prince Paul as an early champion of sampling’s potential to elaborate on and rewrite music history; Dr. Dre as the superstar who personified the rise of a stylistically distinct regional sound while blurring the lines between sampling and composition; and Madlib as the underground experimentalist and record-collector antiquarian who constantly broke the rules of what the mainstream expected from hip-hop. From these four artists’ histories, and the stories of the people who collaborated, competed, and evolved with them, Patrin crafts a deeply informed, eminently readable account of a facet of pop music as complex as it is commonly underestimated: the aesthetic and reconstructive power of one of the most revelatory forms of popular culture to emerge from postwar twentieth-century America. And you can nod your head to it.

Vibrate Higher

Author : Talib Kweli
Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374717346
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Vibrate Higher written by Talib Kweli and published by MCD. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY LITERARY PRIZE From one of the most lyrically gifted, socially conscious rappers of the past twenty years, Vibrate Higher is a firsthand account of hip-hop as a political force Before Talib Kweli became a world-renowned hip-hop artist, he was a Brooklyn kid who liked to cut class, spit rhymes, and wander the streets of Greenwich Village with a motley crew of artists, rappers, and DJs who found hip-hop more inspiring than their textbooks (much to the chagrin of the educator parents who had given their son an Afrocentric name in hope of securing for him a more traditional sense of pride and purpose). Kweli’s was the first generation to grow up with hip-hop as established culture—a genre of music that has expanded to include its own pantheon of heroes, rich history and politics, and distinct worldview. Eventually, childhood friendships turned into collaborations, and Kweli gained notoriety as a rapper in his own right. From collaborating with some of hip-hop’s greatest—including Mos Def, Common, Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, and Kendrick Lamar—to selling books out of the oldest African-American bookstore in Brooklyn, ultimately leaving his record label, and taking control of his own recording career, Kweli tells the winding, always compelling story of the people and events that shaped his own life as well as the culture of hip-hop that informs American culture at large. Vibrate Higher illuminates Talib Kweli’s upbringing and artistic success, but so too does it give life to hip-hop as a political force—one that galvanized the Movement for Black Lives and serves a continual channel for resistance against the rising tide of white nationalism.

Behind the Beat

Author : Raph
Publisher : Gingko Press Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781584231974
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Beat written by Raph and published by Gingko Press Editions. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revealing photographs found within the pages of Behind the Beat expose the creative spaces of top DJ's and music producers from the UK and US. This book is an open invitation to step into the private world of the hip hop home studio and discover its inner workings. Featured are the studios and equipment of some of the most influential music creators working today including: DJ Premier Dj Spinna, Skitz, Nextmen, Taskforce, Dj Swamp, Dj Cheapshot, E-Swift, Beyond There, Kut masta kurt, Fat jack, Herbaliser, Runaways, Jehst, Beatminerz, Dj Shadow, dj design, Dan the Automator, Chief Xcel, Braintax, Young Einstein, Numark, Cut chemist, Thes one, J zone and Mario Caldato Jnr. Includes an Audio CD with tracks from featured DJs and labels.

Behind the Beat

Author : Darrelyn Gunzburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780868193328
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Beat written by Darrelyn Gunzburg and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold Courage band has two great gigs lined up but their new drummer is drinking his way through rehearsals (7 men, 6 women aged 14-20).

Def Jam Recordings

Author : Bill Adler
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0847833712
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Def Jam Recordings written by Bill Adler and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The illustrated oral history of the greatest hip-hop hit-making machine in history.

A Tribe Called Quest's People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

Author : Shawn Taylor
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826419232
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book A Tribe Called Quest's People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm written by Shawn Taylor and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-04-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Shawn Taylor explores the creation of the album as well as the impact it had on him at the time

Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists

Author : Sacha Jenkins
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466866977
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists written by Sacha Jenkins and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists is more popular than racism! Hip hop is huge, and it's time someone wrote it all down. And got it all right. With over 25 aggregate years of interviews, and virtually every hip hop single, remix and album ever recorded at their disposal, the highly respected Ego Trip staff are the ones to do it. The Book of Rap Lists runs the gamut of hip hop information. This is an exhaustive, indispensable and completely irreverent bible of true hip hip knowledge.

Mo' Meta Blues

Author : Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455501360
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Mo' Meta Blues written by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You have to bear in mind that [Questlove] is one of the smartest motherf*****s on the planet. His musical knowledge, for all practical purposes, is limitless." --Robert Christgau MO' META BLUES The World According to Questlove Mo' Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the music world. He digs deep into the album cuts of his life and unearths some pivotal moments in black art, hip hop, and pop culture. Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is many things: virtuoso drummer, producer, arranger, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon bandleader, DJ, composer, and tireless Tweeter. He is one of our most ubiquitous cultural tastemakers, and in this, his first book, he reveals his own formative experiences--from growing up in 1970s West Philly as the son of a 1950s doo-wop singer, to finding his own way through the music world and ultimately co-founding and rising up with the Roots, a.k.a., the last hip hop band on Earth. Mo' Meta Blues also has some (many) random (or not) musings about the state of hip hop, the state of music criticism, the state of statements, as well as a plethora of run-ins with celebrities, idols, and fellow artists, from Stevie Wonder to KISS to D'Angelo to Jay-Z to Dave Chappelle to...you ever seen Prince roller-skate?!? But Mo' Meta Blues isn't just a memoir. It's a dialogue about the nature of memory and the idea of a post-modern black man saddled with some post-modern blues. It's a book that questions what a book like Mo' Meta Blues really is. It's the side wind of a one-of-a-kind mind. It's a rare gift that gives as well as takes. It's a record that keeps going around and around.

The Marathon Don't Stop

Author : Rob Kenner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982140305
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Marathon Don't Stop written by Rob Kenner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip hop mogul, artist, and activist whose transformative legacy inspired a generation with his motivational lyrics and visionary business savvy-before he was tragically shot down in the very neighborhood he was dedicated to building up"--

The Life Story of James Dewitt Yancey

Author : Maureen Yancey-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781612253497
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book The Life Story of James Dewitt Yancey written by Maureen Yancey-Smith and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every child is born with a special gift and James Dewitt Yancey was no exception. Before becoming J Dilla, one of the most influential producers in many musical genres, James Dewitt Yancey was just an ordinary boy with an extraordinary talent. By tapping into his musical talent at an early age, James Dewitt Yancey was able to experiment with different types of musical instruments until he found several that would transform him, his legacy, and music forever. James Dewitt Yancey followed his dream and as you read, you will learn how it all began.

Rap Capital

Author : Joe Coscarelli
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 198210788X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Rap Capital written by Joe Coscarelli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From mansions to trap houses, office buildings to strip clubs, Atlanta is defined by its rap music. But this flashy and fast-paced world is rarely seen below surface-level as a collection not of superheroes and villains, cartoons and caricatures, but of flawed and inspired individuals all trying to get a piece of what everyone else seems to have. In artistic, commercial, and human terms, Atlanta rap represents the most consequential musical ecosystem of this century so far. Rap Capital tells the dramatic stories of the people who make it tick, and the city that made them that way."--

Work Clean

Author : Dan Charnas
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241200385
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Work Clean written by Dan Charnas and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night after night, chefs and their crews are able to multitask and produce in a way that puts deskbound workers to shame. In Work Clean, Dan Charnas uncovers their secret: mise-en-place - the organizational system that transforms the lives of its practitioners through focus and self-discipline. Through interviews with top chefs working in professional kitchens all over the world, culinary students, line cooks and restaurant employees, Charnas reveals the ten major principles of mise-en-place -- including 'Arranging spaces', 'Finishing actions' and 'Slowing Down to Speed Up' -- and demonstrates how they can be used to boost productivity in all aspects of life.

Son of the City

Author : Dante Ross
Publisher : Barnacle Book
ISBN 13 : 9781947856943
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (569 download)

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Download or read book Son of the City written by Dante Ross and published by Barnacle Book. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Son of the City goes behind the scenes of the Golden Age of Hip Hop with esteemed producer and music industry veteran, Dante Ross, one of the top-25 greatest A&Rs as named by Complex Magazine. Ross pulls no punches as he details his time growing up on the pre-gentrification Lower East Side as the child of political activists, his devotion to punk rock, and his eventual discovery of a brand new art form, which landed him at Tommy Boy Records, where he signed and handled the careers of such artists as De La Soul, Queen Latifah, and Digital Underground. Ross would go on on to work for Elektra records, where he signed Brand Nubian, Grand Puba, Pete Rock & C. L Smooth, KMD, Busta Rhymes, and Ol' Dirty Bastard. He is currently a SVP of A&R at Warner Music Group where he recently helped unearth Macklemore to the world. As a producer, Ross has produced records for artists such as 3rd Bass, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Run-DMC, Santana, Everlast (working on both the multi-platinum album Whitey Ford Sings The Blues and the gold follow-up, Eat At Whitey's), plus many others. Ross earned a Grammy in 1998 for his production work on Carlos Santana's Supernatural. Ross' production work has also appeared on Eminem's 8 Mile soundtrack, where he produced and co-wrote two songs that featured Macy Grey and Young Z. Ross has worked with artists as diverse as Korn, Incubus, Mobb Deep, Ice Cube, ODB, as well as a plethora of others.