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Journalist Reeves proves himself an insightful and capable historian in this collection of essays examining the rise of ten distinct hip-hop movements and their respective avatars. The author displays a remarkable talent for linking lyrics and interviews with broad artistic and historical themes. Locating each artist within their larger social context, he also uses artist lyrics as apertures to overriding socio-political motifs, combing through tracks and imputing rhymes to the relevant racial struggles of the day. This method is convincing when applied to early hip-hop pioneers such as Afrika Bambaataa, Kool Herc, and Grandmaster Flash, whose art stood in direct response to the urban decay of their communities, or used side-by-side with a discussion of the feminist movement in a history of Salt-N-Pepa. It is less effective when connecting politics and more contemporary hip-hop practitioners. For example, Reeves curiously intertwines Jay-Z's iced-out swagger with the Affirmative Action dispute of the late 1990's, and DMX's thug spirituality with the incarceration and release of Black Panther leader Geronimo Pratt. That these links are harder to forge perhaps speaks to hip-hop's ever-growing disengagement from identity politics and the hardships of the communities it claims to represent.
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Journalist Reeves proves himself an insightful and capable historian in this collection of essays examining the rise of ten distinct hip-hop movements and their respective avatars. The author displays a remarkable talent for linking lyrics and interviews with broad artistic and historical themes. Locating each artist within their larger social context, he also uses artist lyrics as apertures to overriding socio-political motifs, combing through tracks and imputing rhymes to the relevant racial struggles of the day. This method is convincing when applied to early hip-hop pioneers such as Afrika Bambaataa, Kool Herc, and Grandmaster Flash, whose art stood in direct response to the urban decay of their communities, or used side-by-side with a discussion of the feminist movement in a history of Salt-N-Pepa. It is less effective when connecting politics and more contemporary hip-hop practitioners. For example, Reeves curiously intertwines Jay-Z's iced-out swagger with the Affirmative Action dispute of the late 1990's, and DMX's thug spirituality with the incarceration and release of Black Panther leader Geronimo Pratt. That these links are harder to forge perhaps speaks to hip-hop's ever-growing disengagement from identity politics and the hardships of the communities it claims to represent.
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“Marcus Reeves gives voice to the world that hip-hop created and still hopes to create.”—Mark Anthony Neal, author of New Black Man
“It's inspiring when a writer can bring insight, conviction and perspective to a subject too often lost in myth and controversy. Marcus Reeves does that and more. He knows the music and the history, and brings both vividly to life here.” —Anthony DeCurtis, Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone
"Pay attention: one of the most compelling writers of our generation has arrived. Somebody Scream! is a deeply imagined, finely balanced, and richly detailed narrative of our nation's complicated, contradictory, often explosive post-Black Power journey. " —Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
“Reeves honors hip hop culture by illuminating it. He tells the story with great insight and deep compassion.” —David Ritz author of Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye
“If in Somebody Scream! Marcus Reeves only provided his exegesis of Public Enemy and Chuck D, it would be an indispensable book. The rest of the chapters, for me, are added value—and extremely valuable. What a remarkable new writer and scholar!” —Herb Boyd, author of Baldwin’s Harlem
"Somebody Scream! is a panoramic, icon-by-icon rendering of hip hop. In the crowded field of hip hop lit, this book is a stand-out. Marcus Reeves has composed a portrait of the culture that possesses all the verve, intellect and swagger of a classic Rakim line." —William Jelani Cobb, author of To The Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic
"Marcus Reeves's Somebody Scream! is a strong and timely book for the new day in Hip Hop. Don't miss it!" —Cornel West
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“Marcus Reeves is one of the gifted thinkers and literary spokespersons of the hip hop era. Every cultural movement, every generation, needs those voices who are not only willing to represent that movement and that generation, but also able to stand back and, like the rapper Bonecrusher, proclaim, loudly, with his chest poked out, ‘I ain't never scared.’ And never scared is what Marcus Reeves is with Somebody Scream: he manifests the truth from back in the day to our day straight up and down, with no chaser, and no apologies.”--Kevin Powell, author of Some Day We'll All Be Free
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