Blowin Up

Author : Jooyoung Lee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226348926

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Blowin' Up by Jooyoung Lee Pdf

Dr. Dre. Snoop Dogg. Ice Cube. Some of the biggest stars in hip hop made their careers in Los Angeles. And today there is a new generation of young, mostly black, men busting out rhymes and hoping to one day find themselves “blowin’ up”—getting signed to a record label and becoming famous. Many of these aspiring rappers get their start in Leimart Park, home to the legendary hip hop open-mic workshop Project Blowed. In Blowin’ Up, Jooyoung Lee takes us deep inside Project Blowed and the surrounding music industry, offering an unparalleled look at hip hop in the making. While most books on rap are written from the perspective of listeners and the market, Blowin’ Up looks specifically at the creative side of rappers. As Lee shows, learning how to rap involves a great deal of discipline, and it takes practice to acquire the necessary skills to put on a good show. Along with Lee—who is himself a pop-locker—we watch as the rappers at Project Blowed learn the basics, from how to hold a microphone to how to control their breath amid all those words. And we meet rappers like E. Crimsin, Nocando, VerBS, and Flawliss as they freestyle and battle with each other. For the men at Project Blowed, hip hop offers a creative alternative to the gang lifestyle, substituting verbal competition for physical violence, and provides an outlet for setting goals and working toward them. Engagingly descriptive and chock-full of entertaining personalities and real-life vignettes, Blowin’ Up not only delivers a behind-the-scenes view of the underground world of hip hop, but also makes a strong case for supporting the creative aspirations of young, urban, black men, who are often growing up in the shadow of gang violence and dead-end jobs.

Author : Ninie Hammon
Publisher : Sterling & Stone LLC
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Blowin' Up A Storm by Ninie Hammon Pdf

Family loyalties, deadly feuds, and international drug wars are brought to life in Ninie Hammon’s new intergenerational tale inspired by the story of the Cornbread Mafia in rural Kentucky. Nobody knows what started the feud between the Hannackers and the McCluskys, but they’ve been enemies for generations. Now that the cash crop of choice for both is marijuana, the stakes have risen – and Riley Hannacker joins other Vietnam vets from Callison County to form a marijuana-growing co-op called the Cornbread Mafia. But Jackson McClusky harbors a dark secret from the war. It was he, and not the Cong, who fired that rocket into a bunker, killing and maiming his buddies. When Riley begins to remember what happened, Jackson sets out to kill them all. It’s not just Jackson plotting their deaths. They outsmarted Kentucky State Police Detective Booth Graham — now he is out for blood. And a competing Colombian drug cartel is sending a hit squad to wipe out the whole Cornbread Mafia in a hail of gunfire. Will the death plots by the McCluskys and the law succeed? Can they survive the cartel’s attack? And can they pull off an elaborate ruse to prevent future bloodshed by convincing all the South Americans that a handful of former soldiers is really an army of ruthless, blood-thirsty hillbillies? Will the other drug cartels buy the hoax? Will they believe the Cornbread Mafia really is the meanest dog in the junkyard? Blowin’ Up A Storm is the second book in Ninie Hammon’s new Cornbread Mafia series, a fictional story inspired by the real Cornbread Mafia that sprang up in picturesque Marion County, Kentucky, and grew into the largest illegal marijuana-growing operation in U.S. history.

Author : Jooyoung Lee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226348896

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Blowin' Up by Jooyoung Lee Pdf

What many readers have wished for is now reality: a richly descriptive ethnography of street rappers. "Blowing up” refers to rappers’ dream of becoming rich and famous, or, at the least, successful as recording artists. Jooyoung Lee adds a shape to his story of Flawliis, VerBS, E. Crimsin, Psychosiz, and Tick-a-Lott: how do young black men from the inner city navigate their twenties? Blowin’ Up is a vibrant look at the young-adult stage of people who grow up in the shadow of gangs, dead-end jobs, and a glittering entertainment industry (the setting is Los Angeles). No other account of ghetto youth affords us this particular angle of vision. Lee discovers that in South Central L.A., rap can create bridges that bring young men together with peers from different neighborhoods (underscoring the importance of a healthy alternative to gangs). A rapper’s underground artistic career is rooted in battle skills and crowd appeal, and, to boot, is meritocratic (whereas mainstream career success is based on branding, timing, funding, networks, and gimmicks). Rapping is an embodied art--it takes much practice to learn, and requires body skills in dance, stance, and voice. Lee homes in on the skills and personalities of individual rappers, but he also illuminates the complex hip-hop scene around which these young men orbit, giving us detailed understandings of how young men navigate the intricate, tightly-wound world of tragedy and opportunity in the city. Lee balances the prospect of risk and existential uncertainty for youth entering a young adult life-stage with the hope for a big break in forging an entertainment career. In the end, Lee shows us how the arts can shape the lives of at-risk youth.

Author : Randy Kearse
Publisher : Randy Kearse
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780980097474

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Street Talk by Randy Kearse Pdf

Street Talk: Da Official Guide to Hip-Hop & Urban Slanguage is the most authentic slang language lexicon that interprets the hip-hop and urban slang dialect. Over 10,000+ enteries, you will find the word, term or metaphor followed by information from it's origin to contextual examples. Randy "Mo Betta" Kearse proves that he has his finger on hip-hop urban street culture with the Street Talk's 700+ pages, 10,000+ entries. This unique dictionary simplifies the complex hip-hop slang vernacular. What makes this dictionary so unique is, though gritty, it doesn't have entries that disrespect woman by referring to them as &itches nor does it have entries that include the N-word. Randy Kearse should be comended for the job he has done. Street Talk documents the intricate way that people communicate throughtout the hip-hop and urban culture. Street Talk should be called Webster's cool cousin.

Author : Billy Hall
Publisher : Robert Hale Ltd
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780719814129

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Soft Soap for a Hard Case by Billy Hall Pdf

Sam Heller had been hit. It wasn't all that serious but blood persisted in running down his arm. That blood made his hand slick. He needed to get it bound up and get rid of the blood- quickly, before he could draw his gun. Then, abruptly, it was too late. Lance Russell and his trusty sidekick stepped out from behind a shed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172131841160

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Pick-me-up by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fujino Omori
Publisher : Yen Press LLC
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781975315061

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Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria, Vol. 15 (manga) by Fujino Omori Pdf

While walking along Daedalus Street, Gareth comes upon a staircase leading to an underground labyrinth, and it just may be the dungeon Loki Familia has been looking for! With orichalcum doors and adamantine walls, this subterranean fortress isn’t going to be an easy one to infiltrate. As Loki’s forces split up to cover more ground, Finn’s party finds themselves facing a familiar foe, one with vengeance on the mind...

Author : Eleanor Dey Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : College stories
ISBN : OSU:32435017762931

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Two Princetonians and Other Jerseyites by Eleanor Dey Young Pdf

Author : Myung Mi Kim,Cristanne Miller
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438469997

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Poetics and Precarity by Myung Mi Kim,Cristanne Miller Pdf

Poets and critics address the potential of language to address the increasing level of discord and precarity in the twenty-first century. At a time when wars, acts of terrorism, and ecological degradation have intensified and isolationism, misogyny, and ethnic divisiveness have been given distinctively more powerful voice in public discourse, language itself often seems to have failed. The poets and critics in this book argue that language has the potential to address this increasing level of discord and precarity, and they negotiate ways to understand poetics, or the role of the poetic, in relation to language, the body politic, the human body, breath, the bodies of the natural environment, and the body of form. Poetry makes urgent issues audible and poetics helps to theorize those issues into critical consciousness. Poetry also functions as a cry to protest late capitalist imperialism, misogyny, racism, climate change, and all the debilitating conditions of everyday life. Hubs of concern merge and diverge; precarity takes differently gendered, historied, embodied, geopolitical manifestations. The contributors articulate a poetics that renders what has not yet been crystallized as discourse into fields of force. They also acknowledge the beauties of sound, poetry, and music, and celebrate the power of community, marking the surge of energy that can occur at a particular place at a particular moment. Ultimately, Poetics and Precarity fosters further conversations that will imagine the concerns of poetics as a continuously emerging field.

Author : Mark Saltzman
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Huntsville (Ala.)
ISBN : 9780573697579

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Rocket City, Alabam' by Mark Saltzman Pdf

At the dawn of the Cold War, the early 1950s, a young, brash, Army major, Hamilton Pike, brings famed German rocket scientist and former Hitler employee Wernher Von Braun to Huntsville, Alabama, a cotton town selected to become America's "Rocket City." But Huntsville is a Jewish community over a century old. Sparks fly and tempters explode when Amy Lubin, the Jewish fiancaee of local war hero Jed Kessler learns of Von Braun's Nazi past.

Author : George Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590854277

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Mrs. Brown's Christmas box, by Arthur Sketchley by George Rose Pdf

Author : Frank R. Spellman
Publisher : Bernan Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781598889239

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Transportation Protection and Homeland Security by Frank R. Spellman Pdf

The seventh of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Transportation Protection and Homeland Security is a valuable reference source. The book was fashioned in response to the critical needs of transportation production managers, transportation engineers, security professionals (physical and cyber-security), students, and for anyone with a general interest in the security of transportation systems. In Transportation Protection and Homeland Security, the reader will gain an understanding of the challenge of domestic preparedness—that is, an immediate need for a heightened state of awareness of the present threat facing the transportation sector as a potential terrorist target. Moreover, the reader will gain knowledge of security principles and measures that can be implemented—adding a critical component not only to your professional knowledge but also give you the tools needed to combat terrorism in the homeland—our homeland, both by outsiders and insiders.

Author : Arthur Sketchley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Christmas stories, English
ISBN : NLS:V000670936

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Mrs. Brown's Christmas Box by Arthur Sketchley Pdf

Author : John Arthur Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:088098207

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A Delicate Question by John Arthur Fraser Pdf

Author : James McDonough
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307373809

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Shakey by James McDonough Pdf

Neil Young is one of rock and roll’s most important, influential and enigmatic figures, an intensely reticent artist who has granted no writer access to his inner sanctum -- until now. In Shakey, Jimmy McDonough tells the whole story of Young’s incredible life and career: from his childhood in Canada to the founding of folk-rock pioneers Buffalo Springfield; to the bleary conglomeration of Crazy Horse and simultaneous monstrous success of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; to the depths of the Tonight’s the Night depravity and the strange changes of the Geffen years; and Young’s unprecedented nineties “comeback” with Ragged Glory and Harvest Moon. No detail is spared -- not the sex, drugs, relationships, breakups, births, deaths, nor the variety of chameleon-like transformations that have enabled Young to remain one of the most revered musical forces of our time. Shakey (the title refers to one of Young’s many aliases) is not only a detailed chronicle of the rock era told through the life of one uncompromising artist, but the compelling human story of a lonely kid for whom music was the only outlet; a driven yet tortured figure who learned to control his epilepsy via “mind over matter”; an oddly passionate model train mogul who -- inspired by his own son’s struggle with cerebral palsy -- became a major activist in the quest to help those with the condition. Based on interviews with hundreds of Young’s associates (many speaking freely for the first time), as well as extensive exclusive interviews with Young himself, Shakey is a story told through the interwoven voices of McDonough -- biographer, critic, historian, obsessive fan -- and the ever-cantankerous (but slyly funny) Young himself, who puts his biographer through some unforgettable paces while answering the question: Is it better to burn out than to fade away?