One of hip-hop's formative bands, Run-DMC popularized the influential genre with a combination of accessible fashion and a uniquely compelling, skeletal sound consisting of chanted, intertwined vocals overlaying a drum machine and turntable scratching. Their 1984 single "Sucker MCs" and their self-titled debut album, two of the first releases on ...
Born on February 18, 1965 to a sixteen-year-old single mom, Andre Young, AKA Dr. Dre, co-founded the notorious rap group N. W. A. The group was one of the most successful hip-hop groups of the late 1980s and, most importantly, started what the media quickly dubbed Gangsta Rap. His departure from N. W. A. was a story right out of a pulp fiction ...
One of the major hip-hop entrepreneurs to have achieved prominence in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Sean Combs's rise to fame and notoriety as the controller of Bad Boy Records, a multimillion dollar music empire, is charted here by Ronin Ro. Ro's former rapper status makes him well qualified to interpret the labyrinthine business ...
An insightful portrait of one the most enduring--and overlooked--comic book artists, "Tales to Astonish" is also a lively, novelistic account of the comic book industry.
According to Ronin Ro, Gangsta is to Hip-Hop as Death Metal is to Brahms. As Fitzgerald chronicled the jazz age, Ronin Ro has captured a society attracted to the base parts of itself. With an insider's knowledge, Ro, a veteran music reporter and a rhymer himself, describes how money and marketing have bastardized the funk and how the star-maker ...
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