NP hip-hop paperbacks
Doug Millison
millison at online-journalist.com
Thu Sep 21 10:20:53 CDT 2000
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/21/arts/21BOOK.html
"They are the literary equivalent of hip-hop videos, using the
language and metaphor and rhythms of hip-hop, its sex and violence,
only in prose rather than lyrics and beats. Indeed, each novel comes
packaged with a Def Jam CD, with tracks by artists like Jay- Z, Foxy
Brown, Memphis Bleek, who have more or less donated their work. As
the publisher's sampler proclaims, "They aren't just books - they're
`joints.' "
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