DJ Ross One casts an affectionate eye over hip-hop T-shirts while Shea Serrano wryly discusses and deconstructs the best rap song from every year since 1979In rap music’s nearly four-decade-long existence,books approximately its history beget usually taken an academic approach. There beget been exhaustively researched works approximately its early days like Can’t end, Won’t end by Jeff Chang and the business-focused The stout Payback from Dan Charnas, or as well as Brian Coleman’s Check the Technique series approximately the making of the genre’s golden-age,classic albums. But two new books – Rap Tees: A Collection of Hip-Hop T-Shirts 1980-1999 from DJ Ross One and Shea Serranos The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, and Debated and Deconstructed – add some much needed irreverence when it’s time to know the ledge.
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Source: theguardian.com