With a sales growth of 51 percent from 1995 to 1998, hip-hop has become our nation's fastest growing listening preference: 62 million rap albums were sold in 1997 alone. "Move the Crowd" celebrates this meteoric success, chronicling rap's Golden Age -- the '80s and early '90s, when the music grew from an inner city phenomenon to a primary force of youth culture. The book captures this unique era through hundreds of thought-provoking quotations from the artists themselves, and alongside their powerful words, newspaper headlines and brief excerpts from other media evoke the political and cultural climate that in many ways fueled the rise of hip-hop. With its stunning graphic design and previously unpublished black-and-white photographic portraits, "Move the Crowd" is sure to captivate all music lovers.
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Something of a budget-priced art book for rap fans, Move the Crowd gets over on the strength of its page-size photographs of Ice Cube, Flavor Flav, A Tribe Called Quest, and many more. Relying on a decade's worth of magazine and newspaper interviews by the two authors, the book often feels stuck in the early '90s. (Heard anyone name-check the Afros lately?) The Ehrlichs toss out quote after quote, vaguely acknowledging a theme before moving on to another; to say that this method leads to a lack of narrative flow is like saying Snoop Dogg curses a lot. The lack of verbal context--ironic in a hip-hop book--also leads to gaffes such as the straight-faced use of a Vanilla Ice quote ("I got stabbed, I've stolen cars... People can't accept that a white kid did grow up in the streets") when the rapper's middle-class past was exposed before "Ice Ice Baby" was even off the charts. In the end, it's the great visuals that make this one move. --Rickey Wright
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Chapter One: Dropping Science
"Throughout history technology has destroyed civilization. And it's time for civilization to take back civilization. When technology rules civilization, you have false politics and false school systems and atomic weapons and all kinds of things that destroy civilization. When civilization is in control of technology, you have medicine, you have philosophy, art, music, things that help humanity along. But we don't realize this and as a result we're becoming more of a technological society and not a civilization."
-- KRS-One
I feel that once the black man gets himself better situated, the pyramids will be nothing compared to what this generation is gonna do."
-- Lord Jamar, Brand Nubian
"It's really easy to say something in a song, and it's another thing to be responsible and put into action what you say. That's where I feel that we gain strength, through constantly conquering our own shortcomings and questioning our own beliefs."
-- Michael Franti, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
"The way we came up with the name Main Source is that we feel that the people are the main source of this planet right? And we're just a representation of the people."
-- The Large Professor, Main Source
"Capitalism might be the wicked game, but we're caught up in the middle of it. So we better make up our own rules, with some capitalism in it, some Marxism, some Afrocentrism. The only way to change problems isn't necessarily a violent revolution, but a revolution in education at least."
-- Chuck D, Public Enemy
"A lot of people are afraid. They have stars and icons because they're afraid to tell themselves that they're worth a lot fucking more than they think they are. As much as people respect other artists, they should feel that respect within themselves. I don't really separate myself or put myself on another level from the people that surround me. And it should be that way with everybody."
-Prince Be, PM Dawn
"I felt that I needed something in my life that was spiritually grounding, that I could lean on. I didn't have anything so I chose Islam."
-- Q-Tip, A Tribe Called Quest
"There are about 1.4 million (527,000 adults) Muslims in the United States, 40% of whom are African-Americans. Only a fraction are believed to identify with the Five Percent sect."
Barry A. Kosmin, City University of New York
"Five Percent don't deal with hatred, Five Percent deals with the truth. The nature of the White man is devilishness. The nature of Black people is original, God-like. The first life-form found in existence on the planet was a black man, the first destructive element that was created was by a white man. Society as we know it, history as it has been recorded, the information that has been channeled out to condition the minds of the masses, has been designed by the agendas of white men."
-- Busta Rhymes
"When we speak of the devil we're not just trying to attack white people, we're talking about the devilish mentality. The devil is within the black man. The black man was first and the white man was second. That means he came from us, we created that devilish mentality."
-- Lord Jamar, Brand Nubian
The radical Five Percent Nation of Islam is a small North American Muslim sect that takes its name from the belief that only 5% of the black population has a true awareness of the role of Blacks in history and the oppression facing Blacks today. Its doctrine includes the belief that whites are "devils."
-- Los Angeles Times, 1991
"When you're in this line of duty -- which is teaching the science of a civilized person to uncivilized people, in the wilderness of North America -- you're subject to these temporary injustices. In a land I consider based on lies, the worst enemy to White people would be what? The truth. Ain't nobody tellin' the truth. Everybody is based on a lie. That the black man ain't nothin' but a slave. And before he has a slave he was runnin' wild in Swahili somewhere, jumpin' around out of trees, doin' flips on rhinoceros' backs with bones in his noses. That is totally ill. Black man is the father of the oldest civilization ever to exist on planet Earth."
-- Wise Intelligent, Poor Righteous Teachers
"Islam means I Self Lord and Master. If I live according to that, I can't be wrong. Long as I stay peaceful. Now could you be God with hatred? Just 'cause I don't point the finger at people and put the sword over their head, doesn't mean I'm not a 5 percenter."
?- Rakim
"Ignorance is an enemy that is created by the enemy."
-- Busta Rhymes
"If Nelson Mandela can survive what he went through, and if Winnie Mandela can survive what they both went through, that proves that Black people can survive anything because of our strength and our power. And what we all need to do is take our love and our power and share it amongst everybody. And this whole world will unite together and build a force so strong nobody can tear it down."
-- Flavor Flav
"I tell every interviewer who asks me why I'm not Afrocentric that I'm from New York, for God's sake! I wasn't born in Africa! I don't know anything about Africa, except what I see on PBS!"
-- Shazzy
"School is not structured for the multicultural experience. It's only structured for Europeans. That structure doesn't work for the millions of other cultures that exist. The so-called minorities in America can't identify with the Eurocentric ideal."
-- MC Dinko D, Leaders of the New School
"I once read a book that said a lotus could grow and bloom in the midst of a swamp. Can't nobody stop me. If I'm in the midst of darkness, I'm still gonna bloom, because I am the lotus in the swamp of New York."
-- Smooth B, Nice and Smooth
Copyright © 1999 by Gregor Ehrlich and Dimitri Ehrlich
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Great book,
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I like it. Actually sometimes I just pick this book and flip in one page, then in another and so on...'Cause this is more a collecton of sentences form various rappers speaking 'bout different subjects'. As a hiphop fan, I like to konw their point of views. Also, the book is well-made, top quality graphics, good paper...I like it a lot.
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photographer not given enough credit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,
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this is a book made up of 90% photographs and you can't even find the photographers name. his name should be more promnate on the cover than the title.
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