Displaying 1 of 1 2007 Format: Book Author: Coleman, Brian, 1970- author. Title: Check the technique : liner notes for hip-hop junkies / Brian Coleman. Edition: Villard books trade paperback edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Villard, 2007. ©2007 Description: xiv, 509 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Summary: An oral history of hip-hop music offers contributions by the artists who offer an anecdotal account of the creation of some of the genre's most important albums, as well as the people, events, and environment that inspired them. Subjects: Rap (Music) -- History and criticism. Rap musicians -- United States. Rap musicians -- United States -- Interviews. Notes: Includes index. "Originally published in different form in the United States by Wax Facts Press, Somerville, Mass., in 2005"--Title page verso. Contents: 2 Live Crew : As nasty as they wanna be -- Beastie Boys : Check your head -- Big Daddy Kane : Long live the Kane -- Biz Markie : Goin' off -- Black Moon : Enta da stage -- Boogie Down Productions : Criminal minded -- Brand Nubian : One for all -- Common (Sense) : Resurrection -- Cypress Hill : Cypress Hill -- Das Efx : Dead serious -- De la Soul : 3 feet high and rising -- Digable Planets : Reachin' (a new refutation of time and space) -- Digital Underground : Sex packets -- EPMD : Strictly business -- Eric B & Rakim : Paid in full -- Fugees : The score -- Geto Boys : We can't be stopped -- Ice-T : Power -- Marley Marl : In control volume 1 -- MC Lyte : Lyte as a rock -- Mobb Deep : The infamous ... -- M.O.P. : Firing squad -- Onyx : Bacdafucup -- Pete Rock & CL Smooth : Mecca and the soul brother -- The Pharcyde : Bizarre ride II the Pharcyde -- Poor Righteous Teachers : Holy intellect -- Public Enemy : It takes a nation of millions to hold us back -- Redman : Whut? thee album -- The Roots : Do you want more?!!!??! -- Run-DMC : Raising hell -- Schoolly D : Saturday night! the album -- Slick Rick : The great adventures of Slick Rick -- Too $hort : Life is... too $hort -- A Tribe Called Quest : The low end theory -- Wu-Tang Clan : Enter the Wu-Tang Clan (36 chambers) -- X-Clan : to the east, blackwards. Web Site: Sample text Table of contents Publisher description LCCN: 2006100800 ISBN: 9780812977752 0812977750 Other Number: 76961265 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 1053866 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 782.421649 Coleman Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1