Customer Reviews

Hip Hop Immortals: The Remix

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If you have the original version of this book do not buy the remix as it's hardly any different!
But...having said that...it's a great book great photos and if you don't own either then get this one as it's a must for any Hip Hop fan.

There's not much to say.... basically it's a huge picture book with little quotes and blurbs about each artist. It's fun to look at an just to have as a random hip-hop 90s source of inspiration if you want that. I sorta wish it had more pictures, but overall cool coffee table book.

Like another reviewer stated- the bios for the artist were sub par. And the quotes and text entries for certain pages seem to be for looks only, not for actually reading. Which is cool and not cool at the same time... because since its a book I want to be able to read any relevant content.. now if it was a cd cover or something then I'd understand.

I gave it four stars because it does serve its overall purpose as a photobook, but I wish there was more quality content to read about each person.

As an avid reader, fan of hip hop music, and frequent purchaser of photography books. I found Hip Hop Immortals the remix, to be both amazing and frustrating. Amazing in the fact that it was able to compile such a wide spectrum of Hip Hop's biggest legends. Frustrating, because the writing, and font's in this book make many of the passages unreadable. There are whole pages dedicated to what seems like just two paragraphs of writing, written in huge blocky fonts, that literally run into and all over each other. Who ever the graphic designer was on this book, should take a long vacation on the next one. The artist' bio's are lackluster at best, with no new insight, or creative spin placed on the writings. I found myself wanting to get in a time machine, track down the publisher, and force them to let me edit the book myself. While Hip Hop Immortals managed to achieve its goal in capturing the diverse essence of the culture from a musical stand point. The writings, graphic design lay out, and execution of the book as a whole. Would force me to suggest its purchase, if only you were getting it for a bargain.