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Check The Technique – Liner Notes For Hip Hop Junkies (paperback)

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Book (Item 464487) Villard, 2007 — Condition: New Copy

The stories behind a triple dozen of the most legendary albums of hip hop's golden age – told to Brian Coleman by the MCs, producers and DJs themselves – a perfectly realized follow up to his superb Rakim Told Me that's bigger and better in nearly every way! Coleman, a longtime columnist and freelance scribe on the hip hop beat for XXL, Wax Poetics, and many more pubs really works some magic with this book – getting the firsthand stories of some of the most phenomenal hip hop albums ever – with commentary on each track. Check The Technique revisits of the some of best chapters from Rakim Told Me and adds lots more – collecting the stories behind De La's 3 Feet High And Rising, Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), Pete & CL's Mecca And The Soul Brother, PE's It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, Do You Want More ?!!!??! by The Roots, Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory, Resurrection by Common (Sense), Lyte As A Rock by MC Lyte, The Infamous Mobb Deep, Brand Nubian's One For All, Run-DMC's Raising Hell, The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick and much more – including a preface by Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson and photos by Brian Cross, aka B+ of Mochilla! Trade paperback, 528 pages.  © 1996-2010, Dusty Groove America, Inc.



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